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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Autore principale: Dao, Mai Chi
Altri autori: Das, Mitali, Koczan, Zsoka, Lian, Weicheng
Natura: Periodico
Lingua:English
Pubblicazione: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2017.
Serie:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2017/169
Accesso online:Full text available on IMF