The Decline of the U.S. Labor Share
By Michael W L Elsby, B. Hobijn, Ayşegül Şahin. 2013
736 citations recorded by the source corpus.
Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Sociology and Political Science
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In Sociology and Political Science
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Citations in the corpus
- NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES AUTOMATION AND NEW TASKS : HOW TECHNOLOGY DISPLACES AND REINSTATES LABOR (2019, neutral): “These results are consistent with Elsby et al. (2013) who document the important role of within-industry changes that are uncorrelated with factor prices in accounting for the aggregate behavior of the labor share.”
- Deciphering the Fall and Rise in the Net Capital Share: Accumulation or Scarcity? (2016, background): “Elsby et al. (2013) highlight the role of offshoring, while other papers emphasize additional structural and institutional forces.”
- IS LABOR'S LOSS CAPITAL'S GAIN? GROSS VERSUS NET LABOR SHARES (2017, background): “Karabarbounis and Neiman (2014b) and Elsby et al. (2013) document a widespread fall in labor share since the 1970s.”
- Challenges to Mismeasurement Explanations for the U.S. Productivity Slowdown (2017, neutral): “…that the mismeasurement hypothesis would entail—show the quantitative hurdles the hypothesis 12 These income share changes are a reflection of the trends that other researchers have been exploring in other contexts (for example, Elsby, Hobijn, and Sahin 2013; Karabarbounis and Neiman 2014).”
- From Good to Bad Concentration? US Industries over the Past 30 Years (2019, background): “1 This is true across most US industries as shown by Grullon et al. (2019) (concentration and profits), Autor et al.”
- Innovation and Top Income Inequality (2018, result): “This is in line with findings from the recent literature on the decline of the labor share (e.g. see Elsby et al., 2013 and Karabarbounis and Neiman, 2014).”