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| Elhanan Helpman
The Productivity Slowdown and Labour’s Income Share. Elhanan Helpman, November 11, 2017, Paper, "Many countries have experienced both a slowdown in aggregate productivity growth and a decline in labour’s share of national income in recent years. This column argues that the productivity slowdown may have caused the decline in labour’s income. Calibrating the authors’ model to US data suggests that a one percentage point decline in the…
| Elhanan Helpman
The Productivity Slowdown and the Declining Labor Share: A Neoclassical Exploration. Elhanan Helpman, September 2017, Paper, "We explore the possibility that a global productivity slowdown is responsible for the widespread decline in the labor share of national income. In a neoclassical growth model with endogenous human capital accumulation a la Ben Porath (1967) and capital-skill complementarity a la Grossman et al. (2017), the steady-state…
| Elhanan Helpman
Globalization and Wage Inequality. Elhanan Helpman, December 9, 2016, Paper, "Globalization has been blamed for rising inequality in rich and poor countries. Yet the views of many protagonists in this debate are not based on evidence. To help form an evidence-based opinion, I review in this paper the theoretical and empirical literature on the relationship between globalization and wage inequality. While the initial analysis that started in the…