How Has The Globalization of Labor Affected the Labor Income Share in Advanced Countries?

December 1, 2007

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Florence Jaumotte, and Irina Tytell. How Has The Globalization of Labor Affected the Labor Income Share in Advanced Countries?, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2007) accessed September 19, 2024

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Summary

Labor markets around the world have become increasingly integrated over the last two decades, with the entry of China, India and the former Eastern bloc into the world trading system, the removal of restrictions on trade and capital flows, and rapid technological progress. At the same time, the share of labor in national income decreased in most advanced countries. This paper uses a labor share equation derived from a translog revenue function to estimate the contributions of globalization, technological progress, and labor market policies to the decline in the labor share. The results, obtained for 18 advanced countries over 1982- 2002, suggest that globalization was only one of several factors that have affected the labor share. Technological progress, especially in the information and communications sectors, has had a bigger impact, particularly on the labor share in unskilled sectors.

Subject: Employment, Labor, Labor force, Labor markets, Labor share

Keywords: Product market, Unemployment benefit, WP

Publication Details

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54
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Working Paper No. 2007/298
Stock No:

WPIEA2007298
ISBN:

9781451868616
ISSN:

1018-5941

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