Factor Income Distribution, Work and Employment: Social and Economic Perspectives

本系列研讨会将探讨英国经济中要素收入分配、工作和就业的当代性质的其他经济学观点。要调查的因素是资本和劳动力，要调查的相关收入是利润（通常包括国民收入数据中的土地回报）和工资。考虑到资本和劳动力在分配背景下各自的权力，将审查收入分配给资本和劳动力。该系列亦会调查“劳动”因素内的收入分配（即工资分配）。最近的历史背景是与全球金融危机（GFC）相关的产出收缩和收入下降，这代表了分配变化的重要力量。更长期的问题和危机后的模式也将被调查。我们将从多个学术视角（新凯恩斯主义、女权主义、后凯恩斯主义、卡莱肯主义、激进主义）召集经济学家，就我们对发生的事情的理解以及政府对此的最佳反应，促进对话，确定共同建议，并强调分歧问题，来研究这种分配的后果。研讨会系列共包括六场活动。这些讨论会将相互联系，以便在较早的会议上审议概念和方法问题，而这些讨论会的结果将用于为以后的活动所指定的专题提供资料。最初，该系列研讨会将确定全球金融危机后要素收入分配、工作和就业的当前模式。这将考虑到本届政府的紧缩政策，以及在其之前的新工党政府的分配、工作和就业政策的背景下。此后，该系列讨论会将评价用于调查这些主题的最合适的数据和经验方法。在实质性政策分析中，将从若干经济角度阐述三个主要议题：宏观经济分配；工资不平等;还有，就业和失业。该系列讨论会最后将评价各国政府就所调查的问题可能采取的各种政策。其中包括就业权利、工会政策、最低工资立法、教育和技能培训、国家和区域就业战略以及与失业有关的政策。评估这些因素的首要主题框架是要素收入分配。

This Seminar Series will explore alternative economic perspectives on the contemporary nature of factor income distribution, work and employment, in the UK economy. The factors to be investigated are capital and labour, and the associated incomes to be investigated are profits (which usually include returns to land in national income data) and wages. The income distribution to capital and labour will be examined, considering the respective power of each in distributive context. The Series will also investigate income distribution within the factor "labour" (i.e. wage distribution). The recent historical context is the contracting output and falling incomes associated with the Global Financial Crisis (GFC), and this represents a significant force for distributive change. Longer-run issues, and post-crisis patterns will also be investigated. The ramifications of this for distribution will be examined by drawing together economists from a plurality of scholarly perspectives (new Keynesian, feminist, post-Keynesian, Kaleckian, radical), with the intention of fostering dialogue, identifying common recommendations, and highlighting matters for disagreement, with regard to our understanding of what has happened, and the optimal governmental responses to it.The Seminar Series will include six events in all. These will be linked, so that conceptual and methodological issues are considered in earlier sessions, with the outcomes of these seminars used to inform the topic specified at later events. Initially the Seminar Series will identify the present patterns of factor income distribution, work and employment, in the wake of the GFC. This will be considered in the light of the austerity policies of the present government, and in the context of the distribution, work and employment policies of the New Labour governments before it. Thereafter the Seminar Series will evaluate the most suitable data and empirical methods with which to investigate these themes. In the substantive policy analysis three main topics will be elaborated upon, from a number of economic perspectives: macroeconomic distribution; wage inequality; and, employment and unemployment. The Seminar Series will conclude by evaluating various policies which Governments may adopt in relation to the subject under investigation. These include employment rights, trade union policies, minimum wage legislation, education and skills training, national and regional employment strategies, and policies concerned with unemployment. The overarching topical framework within which these will be evaluated is factor income distribution.