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of substitution between capital and labor is greater than one. However, the vast majority of micro-level estimates shows … that capital and labor are complements (elasticity less than one). Using firm- and establishment-level data from Korea, we … divide capital into equipment and software, as they may interact with labor in different ways. Our estimation shows that …
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recovery (itself driven by changes in capital policies since the world wars) and by the slowdown of productivity and population …-income ratio β is about 300% if g= 3% and 600% if g= 1.5%. Our results have important implications for capital taxation and … regulation and shed new light on the changing nature of wealth, the shape of the production function, and the rise of capital …
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This article gives methodological guidance on how best to compare the share of profits in value-added across countries using national accounts. Such comparisons are often based on accounts for institutional sectors such as non-financial corporations. It turns out that these are less...
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This paper investigates changes in GDP accounting in China that may cause movement in factor income share from three aspects: industry reclassification, value-added measure, and the accounting method of income components at institutional unit level. Particularly, this paper discusses the impacts...
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Housing prices diverge from construction prices after 1997 in four major countries. Besides, total-factor productivity (TFP) differences between construction and the general economy account for the evolution of construction prices in the US and Germany, but not in the UK and Spain.
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This paper is the first to study the factors determining labor's share of income on the level of the individual firm, employing an unusually informative panel data set. The empirical examination is concerned with Switzerland which stands out as one of the very few developed countries with a...
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The stability of the labour share of income is a fundamental feature of macroeconomic models, with broad implications for the shape of the production function, inequality, and macroeconomic dynamics. However, empirically, this share has been slowly declining in many countries for several...
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This paper sheds light on the importance of aggregation bias in the analysis of wage shares developments over time and across countries. We focus on five European countries and the United States and show that the trend decline in the aggregate wage share observed in these countries over much of...
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Over the past two decades, aggregate labour productivity growth in most OECD countries has decoupled from real median compensation growth, implying that raising productivity is no longer sufficient to raise real wages for the typical worker. This paper provides a quantitative description of...
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The recent shift to remote work raised the amenity value of employment. As compensation adjusts to share the amenity-value gains with employers, wage-growth pressures moderate. We find empirical support for this mechanism in the wage-setting behavior of U.S. employers, and we develop novel...
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