Arbeitspapier

Labor share decline and intellectual property products capital

We study the behavior of the US labor share over the past 70 years. We find that the capitalization of intellectual property products in the national income and product accounts entirely explains - in a purely accounting sense - the observed decline of the US labor share. We assess the implications of this result for the US macroeconomic model and discuss the way forward.

Language
Englisch

Bibliographic citation
Series: Working Paper ; No. 873

Classification
Wirtschaft
Measurement and Data on National Income and Product Accounts and Wealth; Environmental Accounts
Investment; Capital; Intangible Capital; Capacity
Aggregate Factor Income Distribution
Subject
Labor Share
Intellectual Property Products
Capital

Event
Geistige Schöpfung
(who)
Koh, Dongya
Santaeulàlia-Llopis, Raül
Zhen, Yu
Event
Veröffentlichung
(who)
Queen Mary University of London, School of Economics and Finance
(where)
London
(when)
2018

Handle
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Object type

  • Arbeitspapier

Associated

  • Koh, Dongya
  • Santaeulàlia-Llopis, Raül
  • Zhen, Yu
  • Queen Mary University of London, School of Economics and Finance

Time of origin

  • 2018

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