Tasso di occupazione, orario di lavoro e distribuzione del reddito. Le condizioni alle quali i benefici degli aumenti della produttività oraria del lavoro sono indirizzati alla crescita dell’occupazione

Bonifati, Giovanni (2024): Tasso di occupazione, orario di lavoro e distribuzione del reddito. Le condizioni alle quali i benefici degli aumenti della produttività oraria del lavoro sono indirizzati alla crescita dell’occupazione.

Abstract

The aim of this essay is to show how sustained growth in the employment rate, which should be taken as a strategic variable of economic policy, depends - for given growth rates of output and working age population - on two conditions: (a) allowing working hours to decline at the same rate at which hourly labour productivity grows; (b) allowing real hourly wages to increase at the rate at which hourly labour productivity increases. The essay highlights that the two conditions stated and analytically examined are to be considered as necessary conditions for an expansion of demand and output to express the highest potential for employment growth at unchanging distributive shares. Once both are satisfied, the benefits of the increase in hourly labour productivity are transferred to wages in the form of a higher employment growth rate. The analytical framework developed in the essay is used for an initial assessment of the empirical evidence.

• Item Type: MPRA Paper
• English Title: Employment rate, working time and income distribution. The conditions under which the benefits of increases in hourly labour productivity are directed to employment growth
• Language: Italian
• Keywords: Employment; Working hours; Hourly labour productivity; Growth; Income distribution
• Subjects: B - History of Economic Thought, Methodology, and Heterodox Approaches > B5 - Current Heterodox Approaches > B50 - General; E - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics > E1 - General Aggregative Models > E11 - Marxian ; Sraffian ; Kaleckian; E - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics > E2 - Consumption, Saving, Production, Investment, Labor Markets, and Informal Economy > E24 - Employment ; Unemployment ; Wages ; Intergenerational Income Distribution ; Aggregate Human Capital ; Aggregate Labor Productivity; E - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics > E2 - Consumption, Saving, Production, Investment, Labor Markets, and Informal Economy > E25 - Aggregate Factor Income Distribution

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