education distribution will boost productivity and real wages. … Pessoa and John Van Reenen. Their investigation of claims that wage growth has become 'decoupled' from productivity growth … finds that decoupling has been overstated and cannot be used to justify redressing the balance between wages and profits …

It is widely believed that in the US wage growth has fallen massively behind productivity growth. Recently, it has also … than median wages. We distinguish between "net decoupling" - the difference in growth of GDP per hour deflated by the GDP … hour deflated by the GDP deflator and median wages deflated by a measure of consumer price inflation. We would expect that …

, where family ownership is widespread and the productivity dispersion across firms is substantial. Time use analysis of 356 … devote to work activities, and longer working hours are associated with higher firm productivity, growth, profitability and …