The fall of the labour income share: the role of technological change and imperfect labour markets
"The non-constancy of factor shares is drawing the attention of many researchers. We document an average drop of the labour share of 8 percentage points for eight European countries and the US between 1980 and 2007. We investigate theoretically and empirically two mechanisms: the substitution b...
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| Institution: | ETUI-European Trade Union Institute |
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| Language: | English |
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Nürnberg
2017
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| Online Access: | https://www.labourline.org/KENTIKA-19393888124911110609-The-fall-of-the-labour-income-.htm |
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| author | Carbonero, Francesco Offermanns, Christian J. Weber, Enzo |
| author_facet | Carbonero, Francesco Offermanns, Christian J. Weber, Enzo |
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| description | "The non-constancy of factor shares is drawing the attention of many researchers. We document an average drop of the labour share of 8 percentage points for eight European countries and the US between 1980 and 2007. We investigate theoretically and empirically two mechanisms: the substitution between Information Communication Technology (ICT) and labour and the presence of hiring costs. We find that the ICT-labour replacement is a promising channel to explain the decline of the labour share, though labour market frictions takes part of its explanatory power over. In particular, hiring costs have a bigger role in Europe than in the US. Finally, by modelling the elasticity of substitution between ICT and labour as a function of institutional and structural variables, we find that it correlates with the share of routine occupations (positively) and with the share of high-skill workers (negatively)." |
| format | TEXT |
| geographic | EU countries USA |
| id | 19393888124911110609_f79a05bab86147c7aee16fc1abaef286 |
| institution | ETUI-European Trade Union Institute |
| is_hierarchy_id | 19393888124911110609_f79a05bab86147c7aee16fc1abaef286 |
| is_hierarchy_title | The fall of the labour income share: the role of technological change and imperfect labour markets |
| language | English |
| physical | 26 p. Digital |
| publishDate | 2017 |
| publisher | Nürnberg IAB |
| spellingShingle | Carbonero, Francesco Offermanns, Christian J. Weber, Enzo technological change labour market information technology skilled worker The fall of the labour income share: the role of technological change and imperfect labour markets |
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| title | The fall of the labour income share: the role of technological change and imperfect labour markets |
| topic | technological change labour market information technology skilled worker |
| url | https://www.labourline.org/KENTIKA-19393888124911110609-The-fall-of-the-labour-income-.htm |