the share of hospital labour costs in the total economy on hospital production, wages and technical change. From the raw … data, we observe a modest growth in hospital production over the whole research period. Strikingly, hospital wages … underwent explosive growth compared to wages in other sectors of the economy in the same timeframe, seemingly disproving the …

the macroeconomic level, we draw special attention to the important distinction between product and consumption wages … changes in the distribution of hourly wages between 1990 and 1997 and analyze the economic factors determining these changes …