| Titre | Le partage des revenus, la formation du profit : comparaison entre les cinq grandes économies | |
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| Auteur | Catherine Lapierre-Donzel | |
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Revue |
Economie et prévision Titre à cette date : Statistiques et études financières (Série orange) |
| Numéro | no 44, 1980/4 | |
| Page | 37-49 | |
| Résumé anglais |
The distribution of incomes, the formation of profit : comparison between the five major economies
by Catherine Lapierre-Donzel.
This article bears on the analysis of the wages-profits distribution of the five industrialized economies which are the object of this publication.
It shows, in the long term trends characterizing the years 1950 to 1970, a rather general correlation between the magnitude of gams in productivity, that of rises in real wages, and the increase in the share of profits in the value added. Thus, in the Federal Republic of Germany for some ten years, in Japan and in France this share increased tendentially at the same times as we observed in those three countries a high growth rate of the productivity of labour and of the purchasing power of wage earners. Conversely the share of profits in the value added evolves unfavourably in the U S A in most periods, and even more so in the U K , at the same time as we observe in those countries only slight increases in the productivity of labour and in real wages. However, as early as the 1960's the German economy diverged from the path it had followed till then : a drop in the share of profits in the value added co-existed with productivity gams which were still high.
Between 1970 and 1975, the Japanese and French economies broke with their preceding trends, Japan as soon as 1970, and France from 1974 on In the latter two countries, a great decrease in the profit to income ratio was observed. The abrupt aggravation of the short-run profile of the economic situation produced a durable slowing down of the labour productivity rate, which came up against the inertia of habits acquired with increases in purchasing power.
The indicators obtained concerning the most recent period (1975-1978), however, show the transient character of the 1 970-1 975 period II seems that when wage increases have adapted to new difficulties in the three (French, Japanese and West German) economies, the correlation will once again be confirmed, even if we register a lesser productivity divergence with Anglo-Saxon economies. Source : Éditeur (via Persée) |
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