Erschienen in:Bank of England Working Paper ; No. 811, July 2019
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1 Online-Ressource (62 p)
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Englisch
DOI:
10.2139/ssrn.3422923
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Nach Informationen von SSRN wurde die ursprüngliche Fassung des Dokuments July 19, 2019 erstellt
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We show that cross-country comparisons of corporate labor shares are affected by differences in the delineation of corporate sectors. While the US excludes all self-employed and most dwellings from the corporate sector, other countries include large amounts of both — biasing labor shares downwards. We propose two methods to control for these differences and obtain ‘harmonized' non-housing labor share series. Contrary to common wisdom, the harmonized series remain stable across all major economies except the US, where the labor share still declines, primarily due to manufacturing. These new facts cast doubts on most technological explanations for the labor share decline