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 …) the wedge between compensation (which includes employer-provided benefits like pensions and health insurance) and wages …

finds that decoupling has been overstated and cannot be used to justify redressing the balance between wages and profits … education distribution will boost productivity and real wages. …

It is standard in the literature on training to use wages as a sufficient statistic for productivity. But there are … many reasons why wages and productivity may diverge. This paper is part of a smaller literature on the effects of work … training, productivity and wages. Using a variety of econometric estimation techniques (including system GMM) we find that …