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Cooperative Institutions and Inequality in the OECD: Bringing the Firm Back In *
Author(s) -
Alemán José A.
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
social science quarterly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.482
H-Index - 90
eISSN - 1540-6237
pISSN - 0038-4941
DOI - 10.1111/j.1540-6237.2011.00794.x
Subject(s) - nonmarket forces , redistribution (election) , inequality , economics , multilevel model , economic inequality , distribution (mathematics) , politics , income distribution , regression analysis , labour economics , demographic economics , microeconomics , factor market , political science , mathematical analysis , mathematics , machine learning , computer science , law
Objective. To examine the relationship between firm‐level cooperation, inequality, and redistribution in 18 advanced industrialized democracies. Methods. The relationships are investigated using multiple regression analyses of institutional, political, and economic variables. Results. Multilevel models reveal that contrary to neocorporatism, firm‐level cooperative ties have significant inegalitarian effects, particularly in the distribution of pretax, pretransfer market income. The effects, however, are also felt in the distribution of posttax, posttransfer income. Conclusion. By paying attention to the effect of firm‐level cooperation, the study sheds new light on inequality in the OECD as a result of both market‐based and nonmarket coordination.