Labor Income Share Understanding the Drivers of the Global Decline
This book is about labor income share, which measures the share of national income paid in wages. The global share of income going towards labor is declining, which suggests a more unequal distribution of income. This has sparked debates about fair distri
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Understanding the Drivers of the Global Decline s au m i k pau l
Labor Income Share
Saumik Paul
Labor Income Share Understanding the Drivers of the Global Decline
Saumik Paul Newcastle University London, UK
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Acknowledgments
This book is an outcome of roughly four years of work on labor income share. It would not have been completed without the support and contribution of many people. I sincerely thank Cristiano Perugini for introducing me to this topic. Cristiano was a visiting scholar at Hitotsubashi University back in 2017. I had a series of idle chats in between intense discussions with Cristiano and Kyoji Fukao that later helped me formulate the idea of writing this book. In 2018, the Asian Development Bank Institute hosted a conference on “Labor Income Share in Asia: Conceptual Issues, Drivers, and Policy Considerations.” The proceedings of this conference were published in 2019 as a book volume edited by Gary Fields and me. Working with Gary during this time has helped to shape up many parts of this book. I thank (in alphabetical order) Robert Chirinko, Mitali Das, Marta Guerriero, Kyoji Fukao, Dibyendu Maiti, Debdullal Mallick, Naoyuki Yoshino, and other conference participants at the Asian Development Bank Institute for their feedback on my work. Parts of Chaps. 4, 5, and 6 have been presented in various seminars and conferences. I am grateful for the
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