Why Is Labor Receiving a Smaller Share of Global Income? Theory and Empirical Evidence

This paper documents the downward trend in the labor share of global income since the early 1990s, as well as its heterogeneous evolution across countries, industries and worker skill groups, using a newly assembled dataset, and analyzes the drivers behind it. Technological progress, along with vary...

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Main Author: Dao, Mai
Other Authors: Das, Mitali, Koczan, Zsoka, Lian, Weicheng
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. International Monetary Fund 2017
Series:IMF Working Papers
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