Some Good News in Coronavirus Times: A Rise in the Labor Share of National Income

I would have blogged on this last week if not for the small distraction of a pandemic. Anyhow, we now have full year data on profits and income, and it turns out there was an increase in the labor share of roughly 0.7 percentage points in 2019. That took us to 64.2 percent of national … Continue reading Some Good News in Coronavirus Times: A Rise in the Labor Share of National Income