02116cas a2200253 a 4500 AALejournalIMF017808 230101c9999 xx r poo 0 0eng d 5.00 USD 9781484311004 1018-5941 BD-DhAAL BD-DhAAL Abdih, Yasser. What Explains the Decline of the U.S. Labor Share of Income? : An Analysis of State and Industry Level Data / Yasser Abdih, Stephan Danninger. Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2017. 1 online resource (26 pages) IMF Working Papers <strong>Off-Campus Access:</strong> No User ID or Password Required <strong>On-Campus Access:</strong> No User ID or Password Required Electronic access restricted to authorized BRAC University faculty, staff and students The U.S. labor share of income has been on a secular downward trajectory since the beginning of the new millennium. Using data that are disaggregated across both state and industry, we show the decline in the labor share is broad-based but the extent of the fall varies greatly. Exploiting a new data set on the task characteristics of occupations, the U.S. input-output tables, and the Current Population Survey, we find that in addition to changes in labor institutions, technological change and different forms of trade integration lowered the labor share. In particular, the fall was largest, on average, in industries that saw: a high initial intensity of 'routinizable' occupations; steep declines in unionization; a high level of competition from imports; and a high intensity of foreign input usage. Quantitatively, we find that the bulk of the effect comes from changes in technology that are linked to the automation of routine tasks, followed by trade globalization. Mode of access: Internet Danninger, Stephan. IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2017/167 Full text available on IMF http://elibrary.imf.org/view/journals/001/2017/167/001.2017.issue-167-en.xml IMF e-Library