BERKELEY – Over the last 35 years, real wages in the United States failed to keep pace with productivity gains; for the typical non-farm worker, the latter grew twice as fast as the former. Instead, an increasing share of the gains went to a tiny fraction of workers at the very top – typically high-level managers and CEOs – and to shareholders and other capital owners.
伯克利—过去35年中，美国实际工资增长赶不上生产率；对典型的非农员工来说，后者的增长速度是前者的两倍。相反，越来越大的收益比例流入了最顶尖一小撮员工的腰包——他们常常是高管和CEO——或者股东和其他资本拥有者。事实上，收入分布最底层10%的人实际工资下降了余额6%，中位员工的实际工资仅仅增长了5—6%，而最顶尖1%员工的实际工资飙升150%以上。如何遏制这一令人不安的趋势？