Over the last two decades the share of national income which accrues to labour has followed a marked downward trend across a host of industrialised countries. This paper attempts to assess the importance of several potential causes of this phenomenon. We investigate compositional effects, the...

Over the last two decades the share of national income which accrues to labor has followed a marked downward trend across a host of industrialized countries. This paper reassesses the relative importance of several potential causes of this phenomenon. Overall, the findings suggest that lower...

Over the last two decades the share of national income which accrues to labour has followed a marked downward trend across a host of industrialised countries. This paper attempts to assess the importance of several potential causes of this phenomenon. We investigate compositional effects, the...