The elusive explanation for the declining labor share

GM Grossman, E Oberfield - Annual Review of Economics, 2022 - annualreviews.org
A vast literature seeks to measure and explain the apparent decline in the labor share in
national income that has occurred in recent times in the United States and elsewhere. The …

Monopsony power in the labor market: From theory to policy

J Azar, I Marinescu - Annual Review of Economics, 2024 - annualreviews.org
Labor markets are not perfectly competitive: Monopsony power enables employers to pay
workers less than the marginal revenue product of labor. We review three theoretical …

The short-term effects of generative artificial intelligence on employment: Evidence from an online labor market

X Hui, O Reshef, L Zhou - Organization Science, 2024 - pubsonline.informs.org
Generative artificial intelligence (AI) holds the potential to either complement workers by
enhancing their productivity or substitute them. We examine the short-term effects of the …

[图书][B] The technology trap: Capital, labor, and power in the age of automation

CB Frey - 2019 - books.google.com
From the Industrial Revolution to the age of artificial intelligence, The Technology Trap takes
a sweeping look at the history of technological progress and how it has radically shifted the …

[图书][B] Laboratories against democracy: How national parties transformed state politics

J Grumbach - 2022 - books.google.com
As national political fights are waged at the state level, democracy itself pays the price Over
the past generation, the Democratic and Republican parties have each become nationally …

Facts and fantasies about wage setting and collective bargaining

M Bhuller, KO Moene, M Mogstad… - Journal of Economic …, 2022 - aeaweb.org
In this article, we document and discuss salient features of collective bargaining systems in
the OECD countries, with the goal of debunking some misconceptions and myths and …

[图书][B] The upswing: How America came together a century ago and how we can do it again

RD Putnam - 2020 - books.google.com
From the author of Bowling Alone and Our Kids, a “sweeping yet remarkably
accessible”(The Wall Street Journal) analysis that “offers superb, often counterintuitive …

The declining worker power hypothesis: An explanation for the recent evolution of the American economy

A Stansbury, LH Summers - 2020 - nber.org
Rising profitability and market valuations of US businesses, sluggish wage growth and a
declining labor share of income, and reduced unemployment and inflation, have defined the …

Do increasing markups matter? Lessons from empirical industrial organization

S Berry, M Gaynor, FS Morton - Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2019 - aeaweb.org
This article considers the recent literature on firm markups in light of both new and classic
work in the field of industrial organization. We detail the shortcomings of papers that rely on …

What happened to US business dynamism?

U Akcigit, ST Ates - Journal of Political Economy, 2023 - journals.uchicago.edu
We attempt to understand potential common forces behind rising market concentration and a
slowdown in business dynamism in the US economy, through a micro-founded general …