A new study on OECD countries:
"The decline in the labour share is highly likely due, at least partly, to the weakened bargaining power of labour"
Helsinki (05.11.2011) "According to the results presented in this paper, it is clear that there has been a trend-like decline in the labour share in most major OECD countries at an unchanged rate of unemployment", Pekka Sauramo writes in a new study, published recently by the Labour Institute for Economic Research. "The interpretation of this kind of decline is not straightforward, but it is highly likely due, at least partly, to the weakened bargaining power of labour", Sauramo concludes. - Read the entire study: (a 29-page pdf-file): The relationship between labour share and unemployment: the role of wage-setting institutions.