Labor share and income distribution: Size of the cake or the cake portion?
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Keywords
Functional distribution of income; Labor share; Workers; Capitalists;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- E25 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Consumption, Saving, Production, Employment, and Investment - - - Aggregate Factor Income Distribution
- J30 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Wages, Compensation, and Labor Costs - - - General
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-DGE-2021-04-05 (Dynamic General Equilibrium)
- NEP-LMA-2021-04-05 (Labor Markets - Supply, Demand, and Wages)
- NEP-MAC-2021-04-05 (Macroeconomics)
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