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hn_throwaway_99 2 hours ago

Do you have any evidence for this, at all?

hash872 an hour ago | parent | next [-]

Sure

https://www.brookings.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/2013b_e... https://home.treasury.gov/system/files/131/wp-107.pdf https://eml.berkeley.edu/~yagan/LaborShare.pdf

hn_throwaway_99 an hour ago | parent [-]

Thanks very much for providing those sources.

That said, it's a huge pet peeve of mine when someone makes a statement, and then provides sources to back up that statement, but the actual sources contradict their original statement.

You stated "but AIUI this is mostly a statistical illusion caused by changes to US tax law- previously income that was attributed to 'labor' shifted over to LLCs/S corps for more beneficial tax rates." But then your very first linked article states "First, about a third of the decline in the published labor share appears to be an artifact of statistical procedures used to impute the labor income of the self-employed that underlies the headline measure."

I think there is a huge difference between 1/3 (while still a lot and an important factor) and what you wrote, "mostly a statistical illusion", especially since other substantial factors proposed in that article are things like offshoring.

saghm 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

They seem to conveniently not have enough time to provide that in the comment

cucumber3732842 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Sure matches my anecdotal experience.

How much of an effect it has at the national statistical level I'm not sure.