Globalization, creative destruction, and labor share change: Evidence on the determinants and mechanisms from longitudinal plant-level data

Petri Böckerman () and Mika Maliranta

No 247, Working Papers from Työn ja talouden tutkimus LABORE, The Labour Institute for Economic Research LABORE

Abstract: We examine the sources and micro-level mechanisms of the changes in the labor share of value added. We link the micro-level dynamics of the labor share change with that of productivity and wage growth. Using a useful variant of the decomposition method we make a distinction between the change in the average plant and the micro-level restructuring. With Finnish plant-level data covering three decades we show that micro-level restructuring is the link between the declining labor share and increasing productivity in 12 manufacturing industries of four regions, and that increased international trade is a factor underlying those shifts.

Keywords: Globalization; international trade; foreign ownership; micro-level restructuring; labor share (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F16 J31 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 39 pages
Date: 2009-01-04
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Journal Article: Globalization, creative destruction, and labour share change: evidence on the determinants and mechanisms from longitudinal plant-level data (2012)
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