Has Globalization Eroded Labor’s Share? Some Cross-Country Evidence

By A. Harrison. 2005

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Economic and social upgrading in global production networks: Problems of theory and measurement (2011, background): “Harrison (2002) finds that trade openness has been associated with a rising profit share across a large sample of developing countries.”
The factor income distribution in China: 1978–2007 (2010, methodology): “Economists have computed the labor share using total GDP as the denominator (e.g. Hansen, 1985; Harrison, 2002; Krueger, 1999; Kydland and Prescott, 1982; Poterba, 1997) and also using GDP net of indirect tax (also known as value-added at factor cost) as the denominator (e.g. Bentolila and…”
The effect of FDI and foreign trade on wages in the Central and Eastern European Countries in the post-transition era: A sectoral analysis for the manufacturing industry (2006, background): “The conceptual framework is developed in several theoretical as well as empirical studies, discussing the effects of globalization on labor and the threat effects associated with international capital mobility and outsourcing (Onaran, 2004 and 2005; Lee and Jayadev, 2005; Harrison, 2002; Pollin, 200”
The personal and the factor distributions of income in a cross-section of countries (2007, background): “share; see Harrison (2002) and Ortega and Rodriguez (2002).”
A Model of China's State Capitalism (2015, unknown): “Observe that the foreign productivity A∗ and foreign labor endowment L∗ are absent in the expressions of all the prices, profit, GDP, and labor income share in country H, as long as conditions (24) -(26) and (28) are satisfied.”
Growth, capital shares, and a new perspective on production functions (2003, background): “Harrison (2003) looks at labor’s share for a large number of countries using the national accounts data from the United Nations and shows that there are large movements over time for many countries.4 Apart from Harrison (2003), these papers typically do not focus on a large number of countries.”
Wage share, globalization and crisis: the case of the manufacturing industry in Korea, Mexico and Turkey (2009, background): “World Bank (2006), after having promoted trade liberalization for two decades, in its 2006 World development report discussed that the aggregate effects of trade reform on income distribution are not always clear, and there are winners and losers; however the policy framework is defined as previousl”
The Global Decline of the Labor Share (2014, unknown): “First, our findings are consistent with earlier work by Blanchard (1997), Blanchard and Giavazzi (2003), Jones (2003), and Bentolila and Saint-Paul (2003) that focuses on the variability of labor shares over the medium run, including the large declines seen during the 1980s in Western Europe.3 Harri”
Gender equity and globalization: Macroeconomic policy for developing countries (2006, background): “In the first case, incentive structures that force firms to respond to higher wages by investing in technological improvements cause investment to rise rather than fall as wages rise, thus producing a demand-side stimulus.29 There may be limits on the effectiveness of this type of policy in…”