Distribution of income, labour productivity and competitiveness: is the Thai labour regime sustainable?

Bruno Jetin

Cambridge Journal of Economics, 2012, vol. 36, issue 4, 895-917

Abstract: This article takes the case of Thailand to present the distribution of income and the evolution of the profit rate in a low-wage country that belongs to the second generation of newly industrialising countries. It is shown that during the boom years the high rate of profit was not based on a continuous process of modernisation, but rather on a redistribution of income in favour of capital. The link between the distribution of income and competitiveness is also analysed. It is shown that labour income repression is not necessary to maintain competitiveness. Quite to the contrary, in this period of international crisis the labour income share should recover lost ground if Thailand and other Asian countries want to rebalance growth in favour of domestic demand. Copyright The Author 2012. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Cambridge Political Economy Society. All rights reserved., Oxford University Press.

Date: 2012
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