Bell, Brian, Bukowski, Pawel ORCID: 0000-0003-3795-6308 and Machin, Stephen (2023) The decline in rent sharing. Labor Economics. ISSN 0927-5371 (In Press)
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Abstract
The evolution of rent sharing is studied. Based upon a panel of the top 300 publicly quoted British companies over thirty-five years and using excess stock market returns to patenting activity as an instrument for economic rents, the paper reports evidence of a significant fall over time in the pass-through from rents to wages. It confirms that wages do respond to firm-level shocks to economic rents, but by significantly less after 2000 than they did during the 1980s and 1990s. The evidence of decline is a robust finding, corroborated with alternative instruments and industry-level analysis for the US and EU.
Item Type: | Article |
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Additional Information: | © 2023 University of Chicago Press. |
Divisions: | Economics |
Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HB Economic Theory |
JEL classification: | D - Microeconomics > D3 - Distribution > D30 - General |
Date Deposited: | 20 Jun 2023 10:12 |
Last Modified: | 06 Mar 2024 13:48 |
URI: | http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/119448 |
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