Sentences with phrase «labor compensation»

In addition, unit labor costs have declined sharply over the past year due to the combination of unusually rapid productivity growth and slowing labor compensation growth (Chart 28).

Very simply, because labor compensation - which is also mean - reverting - has stagnated (though that's started to change in recent months, both in the U.S. and internationally, thanks to relatively low unemployment).

Thanks to unusually high debt levels and unusually low labor compensation in recent years, the earnings peak in 2007 was based on profit margins that were about 50 % above the historical average, and which have now collapsed.

Amid the debate on raising the state minimum wage, the labor - backed Fiscal Policy Institute released an analysis that contends business profits per worker increased much more than labor compensation in the state between 2001 and 2013.

Labor compensation?

Thus, John Maynard Keynes, writing in a similar situation during the late 1930s, rightly emphasized the need for policy approaches that both promoted business confidence — the cheapest form of stimulus — and increased labor compensation.

To see how closely profits and labor compensation are related, I've reprinted a chart that appeared in these comments a few months ago.