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Posted on 08/30/2006 18:14 PM | Link | Post Comment
Greg Mankiw reports:
The NY Times two days ago in a front-page, above-the-fold article:wages and salaries now make up the lowest share of the nation’s gross domestic product since the government began recording the data in 1947.The NY Times online today, presumably to be reported in tomorrow's paper (on what page?) [emphasis added]:Perhaps the biggest surprise in today’s report was a surge in wage-and-salary income during the first half of this year. Between the fourth quarter of last year and the second quarter of 2006, it grew at an annual rate of about 7 percent, after adjusting for inflation, up from an earlier estimate of 4 percent, according to MFR, a consulting firm in New York.As a result, wages and salaries no longer make up their smallest share of the gross domestic product since World War II. They accounted for 46.1 percent of economic output in the second quarter, down from a high of 53.6 percent in 1970 but up from 45.4 percent last year.
Total compensation — including employee health benefits, which have risen in value in recent years — equaled 57.1 percent of the economy, down from 59.8 percent in 1970. Still, compensation makes up a larger share of the economy than it did throughout the 1950’s and early 60’s, as well as during parts of the mid-1990’s and the last couple of years.
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