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Decoupling of Wage Growth and Productivity Growth? Myth and Reality

Pessoa, Joao Paulo; Reenen, John Van - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2013

hour deflated by the GDP deflator and median wages deflated by a measure of consumer price inflation. We would expect that …

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Wage growth and productivity growth: the myth and reality of 'decoupling'

Pessoa, Joao Paulo; Reenen, John Van - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2013

Employees in the UK are not being denied their fair share of economic growth, according to research by João Paulo Pessoa and John Van Reenen. Their investigation of claims that wage growth has become 'decoupled' from productivity growth finds that decoupling has been overstated and cannot be...

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The Volatility of Earnings: Evidence from High-Frequency Firm-Level Data

Georgiadis, Andreas; Manning, Alan - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2014

The first contribution of this paper is to use UK monthly firm-level data to show that there is a large amount of transitory volatility in firm-level average earnings from month to month. We conclude that this cannot all be explained away as the consequence of measurement error, composition...

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Privatization, Entry Regulation and the Decline of Labor's Share of GDP: A Cross-Country Analysis of the Network Industries

Azmat, Ghazala; Manning, Alan; Reenen, John Van - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2007

Labor's share of GDP in most OECD countries has declined over the last two decades. Some authors have suggested that these changes are linked to deregulation of product and labor markets. To examine this we focus on a large quasi-experiment in the OECD: the privatization of many network...

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Wage Equations, Wage Curves and All That

Bell, B; Nickell, Stephen; Quintini, Glenda - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2000

upon entry into the job? Finally is the wage-unemployment relationship influenced by inflation, competition or the housing …This paper is concerned with the relationship between wages and unemployment. Using UK regions and individuals as the … unemployment and wages or wage changes? Second, can we identify the relationship completely by looking at regional wages and …

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