Number: RL33606
Title: Faster Productivity Growth: Who Benefits?
Authors: Brian W. Cashell, Government and Finance Division 
Abstract: Although average labor productivity and average incomes are rising more rapidly, it may not mean that everyone is reaping benefits from faster productivity growth. Like current income, productivity gains may also be unequally distributed. If income gains from productivity are less equally distributed than is current income, productivity growth will exacerbate inequality. This report examines the acceleration in productivity that began in the mid-1990s, and who has reaped its benefits.
Pages: 12
Date: August 10, 2006