April 10, 2017/IMFBlog By Bertrand Gruss, Malhar Nabar, and Marcos Poplawski-Ribeiro Click here to read full PDF Article It is quite likely you are reading this on a smartphone or tablet assembled in an emerging market economy. The beverage beside you could well be tea grown in Sri Lanka or […]

April 10, 2017/IMFBlog By Mai Dao, Mitali Das, Zsoka Koczan, Weicheng Lian Click here to read full PDF article After being largely stable in many countries for decades, the share of national income paid to workers has been falling since the 1980s.  Chapter 3 of the April 2017 World Economic […]

April 10, 2017/imf Click to download PDF Report Introduction The labor share of income—the share of national income paid in wages, including benefits, to workers—has been on a downward trend in many countries (Figure 3.1). In advanced economies, labor income shares began trending down in the 1980s, reaching their lowest level of […]