While the progress of the knowledge economy is inexorable, this paper argues that partisan politics and labor market institutions can affect the direction in which the knowledge economy progresses. In particular, a combination of corporatist industrial relations systems and left partisanship tends to foster greater wage restraint, and such a wage outcome tends to encourage the greater adoption of communications technology than information-processing technology in the economy. This reorientation of the knowledge economy toward communications technology, in turn, has egalitarian distributive implications. In particular, the greater adoption of communications technology reduces wage inequality across the board in lower 90–10, 50–10, as well as 90–50 wage ratios. These arguments are tested using data across 15–21 OECD countries (1970–2015).

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左翼党派、法团主义和发达资本主义社会知识经济的重新定位

尽管知识经济的进步是不可阻挡的，但本文认为，党派政治和劳动力市场制度可以影响知识经济的进步方向。特别是，社团主义劳资关系体系和左翼党派之争的结合往往会促进更大的工资限制，而这种工资结果往往会鼓励经济中更多地采用通信技术而不是信息处理技术。知识经济向通信技术的重新定位反过来又具有平等分配的含义。特别是，通信技术的广泛采用全面降低了 90-10、50-10 以及 90-50 工资比的工资不平等。这些论点使用 15-21 个 OECD 国家（1970-2015 年）的数据进行了检验。