In this paper we study an association almost neglected in the literature, that between income inequality and resilience. In particular, we explore the response of employment rates in the face of the crisis of 2008 and how income inequality levels may have affected this response. To do so, we construct two measures of employment resilience—resistance and recoverability—using data on total employment and self-employment for 995 Spanish municipalities during the Great Recession. Our results provide evidence of the threats that high levels of inequality pose for employment resilience, showing that average income is the most important mediating factor of this association.

在本文中，我们研究了收入不平等和抵御力之间在文献中几乎被忽略的关联。特别是，我们探讨了面对2008年危机时就业率的反应，以及收入不平等水平可能如何影响这种反应。为此，我们使用大萧条期间995个西班牙城市的总就业和自雇数据，构建了两种就业抵御能力衡量标准（抵抗力和可恢复性）。我们的结果提供了证据，表明高度不平等对就业弹性构成了威胁，表明平均收入是该协会最重要的中介因素。