The causes of falling wage share: sectoral and firm level evidence from developed and developing countries – what have we learned?
Resources - Author: Özlem Onaran / Year: 2018
The last four decades have been characterised by drastic changes in the distribution of income between wages and profits in both OECD countries and emerging economies. We have recently analysed the causes of the decline in the wage share in the developed and developing countries for a project titled...
Read MoreThe Political Economy of Income Distribution: industry level evidence from 14 OECD countries
Resources - Author: Alexander Guschanski, Özlem Onaran / Year: 2017
This article presents an econometric estimation of the determinants of the wage share, using sectoral data for 14 OECD countries for the period 1970- 2014. We present estimations for the wage share of high- and low-skilled workers and within manufacturing and service industries. We augment sectoral data with input-output...
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