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Wage Growth After The Great Recession
Monday, March 27, 2017 4:09
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from the Cleveland Fed
– this post authored by Roberto Pinheiro and Meifeng Yang
Nominal wage growth since the Great Recession has been sluggish. We show that the sluggishness is due mostly to weak growth in labor productivity, as well as lower-than-expected inflation. We also find that wage growth since late 2014 has actually been above what would be consistent with realized labor-productivity growth and inflation, and this trend in wages reflects an increase in labor’s share of income. We show evidence that this increase in the labor share may be due to a reversal of the trend to replace labor with capital.
Source: http://econintersect.com/pages/contributors/contributor.php?post=201703270550
