IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/jid/journl/y2010v19i1p96-119.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Dynamics of Factor Income Shares in the United States

Author

Listed:
  • Philip N. Jefferson

    (Swarthmore College)

  • Frederic L. Pryor

    (Swarthmore College)

Abstract

This essay examines the cyclical behavior and stability properties of four different measures of the labor share of income in the United States from 1948 through 2006. The evidence suggests that the share exhibits instability. This instability is sensitive to the measure of labor share deployed and whether that measure has been adjusted for the changing sectoral composition of production over time. We test a number of competing hypotheses about the determinants of the behavior of cyclical labor share, showing that its movements are traceable to just two indicators of the business cycle, namely lagged gross domestic product (GDP) and lagged multifactor productivity.

Suggested Citation

  • Philip N. Jefferson & Frederic L. Pryor, 2010. "Dynamics of Factor Income Shares in the United States," Journal of Income Distribution, Ad libros publications inc., vol. 19(1), pages 96-119, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:jid:journl:y:2010:v:19:i:1:p:96-119
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://pi.library.yorku.ca/ojs/index.php/jid/article/viewFile/15290/23750
    Download Restriction: Some fulltext downloads are only available to subscribers. See JID website for details.
    ---><---

    As the access to this document is restricted, you may want to search for a different version of it.

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Jackson, William A., 2014. "The Factor-Shares Cycle and its Relation to the Business Cycle," EconStor Open Access Book Chapters, in: Business Cycles in Economics: Types, Challenges and Impacts on Monetary Policies, pages 11-26, ZBW - Leibniz Information Centre for Economics.

    More about this item

    Keywords

    Labor share; productivity; volatility; cyclical behavior; structural change;
    All these keywords.

    JEL classification:

    • E25 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Consumption, Saving, Production, Employment, and Investment - - - Aggregate Factor Income Distribution
    • E32 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Prices, Business Fluctuations, and Cycles - - - Business Fluctuations; Cycles
    • C22 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Single Equation Models; Single Variables - - - Time-Series Models; Dynamic Quantile Regressions; Dynamic Treatment Effect Models; Diffusion Processes

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:jid:journl:y:2010:v:19:i:1:p:96-119. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Timm Boenke (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://edirc.repec.org/data/gyorkca.html .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.