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The share of wages in national income is falling.
Most dramatic has been the fall in the share of wages in GDP.
The share of wages in total income is barely lower than thirty years back.
And France has become the OECD country where the share of wages in value added is the lowest.
The total wage bill is (∂Q/∂L) · L. The distributive share of wages equals (L/Q) · (∂Q/∂L).
The share of wages going to the top 1 percent climbed to 12.9 percent in 2010, from 7.3 percent in 1979.
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By contrast, when nominal wage growth tracks real productivity growth, which is apparently the role model suggested by the ECB president, the share of wage income in national income will permanently decrease.
As expected, the residual part of the wage is on average, more flexible (the level of skewness associated with it is lower and the share of wage cuts is higher).
While in developed countries, the share of wage employment in total employment is high, it can still be as low as 20%% in developing countries, as self-employment remains sizeable.
Almost 30% of job stayers have a recorded negative wage change in 2009 while this figure is around 20% in normal times.9, 10, 11 Overall, the coherence between these three measures of rigidity is high: the simple correlation between Kelley's skewness and the standard measure of skewness is 0.9 and that with the share of wage cuts is 0.3.
In Table 7, I analyze how the changes in the enforcement level across provinces, sectors, and over time impact the composition of employment between wage employment and self-employment.14 For the sample of men, column 1 shows that increases in enforcement lead to increases in the share of wage employment in relation to self-employment.
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