Did wages reflect growth in productivity?
By: Martin S. Feldstein.
Contributors: National Bureau of Economic Research.
Series: NBER working paper series -- working paper 13953; Working paper series (National Bureau of Economic Research : Online) -- working paper no. 13953.
Publisher: National Bureau of Economic Research
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Cambridge, MA
Language: eng
Format: Electronic resource
Description: "The level of productivity doubled in the U.S.  nonfarm business sector between 1970 and 2006.  Wages, or more accurately total compensation per hour, increased at approximately the same annual rate during that period if nominal compensation is adjusted for inflation in the same way as the nominal output measure that is used to calculate productivity.  Total employee compensation as a share of national income was 66 percent of national income in 1970 and 64 percent in 2006.  This measure of the labor compensation share has been remarkably stable since the 1970s.  It rose from an average of 62 percent in the decade of the 1960s to 66 percent in the decades of the 1970s and 1980s and then declined to 65 percent in the decade of the 1990s where it has again been from 2000 until the most recent quarter"--National Bureau of Economic Research web site.
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