The share of national income going to workers has decreased steadily across Europe since the 1980s. This apparently uniform decrease in labour’s share conceals differences amongst states however—in ‘liberal’ Ireland, this fall has been drastic, while that of ‘social democratic’ Denmark has been moderate. This article presents a parallel time series analysis of institutional and structural factors shaping labour’s share in Ireland and Denmark. Our results show that factors common to the study of variation in labour’s share operate in different ways in different countries, both in magnitude and causal mechanism. We find that stressors such as global trade, foreign investment and high-tech growth produce different effects in each location. Equally, protections such as unionization, leftist cabinets and welfare spending display contradictory effects in both locations. We conclude that ‘power resource’ models of labour share should be supplemented with comparative approaches that emphasize how institutionalized socio-political logics mediate returns to labour.

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工党在爱尔兰和丹麦的国民收入份额下降：结构变化的国家特点

自1980年代以来，全欧洲用于工人的国民收入份额一直在稳步下降。劳动力份额的这种明显下降掩盖了各州之间的差异，但是-在“自由主义”爱尔兰，这一下降是剧烈的，而“社会民主主义”丹麦的下降是温和的。本文对构成爱尔兰和丹麦劳动力份额的制度和结构因素进行了并行的时间序列分析。我们的结果表明，在不同国家，研究劳动份额变化的共同因素在规模和因果机制上都有不同的作用。我们发现，全球贸易，外国投资和高科技增长等压力因素在每个位置产生不同的影响。同样，工会保护，左派内阁和福利支出在两个地方都显示出矛盾的效果。我们得出结论，应该用比较方法来补充劳动份额的“权力资源”模型，这些比较方法应强调制度化的社会政治逻辑如何介导劳动回报。