Talk:Labor share

Latest comment: 2 years ago by Econterms in topic Content moved to "Labor share"

Requested move 6 April 2022 edit

The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

The result of the move request was: no consensus. (closed by non-admin page mover) Extraordinary Writ (talk) 05:27, 25 April 2022 (UTC)Reply


Wage shareLabor share – The term "labor share" is common, and standard in the economics literature. The term (and concept) of wage share is rare. I ask for consensus before we start because it will require overwriting the present redirect at Labor share. econterms (talk) 20:51, 6 April 2022 (UTC)— Relisting. Spekkios (talk) 22:05, 14 April 2022 (UTC)Reply

  • Comment Would support a move to "Labour share" as the article at creation used -our spelling and for the benefit of consistency with Labour economics. AusLondonder (talk) 14:20, 7 April 2022 (UTC)Reply
  • Support Initially inclined to oppose, as wage share and labor share are not the same, as labor can have other forms of earnings. But realized the article touches on those other forms, so it really is about labor share and not really wage share. Do not support switching to UK "labour" spelling, as nearly all the references and data in this article are from sources which use US "labor" spelling (BLS, FRED, Cobb & Douglas, etc.) Walrasiad (talk) 09:27, 8 April 2022 (UTC)Reply
That isn't correct. For example, of the first five sources, three use labour spelling. Nonetheless, that is irrelevant to WP:RETAIN. You do have a point regarding WP:GEOBIAS. The article needs to be edited to include global perspectives. AusLondonder (talk) 09:37, 8 April 2022 (UTC)Reply
The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

Content moved to "Labor share" edit

I moved the content to "labor share," the standard name, from "wage share" which is not a common phrase. I may have blundered here; I didn't see the move discussion above which ends up at "no consensus." However that discussion was somehow about labor vs labour; I am flexible on that question. I want to expand to cover more sources here and more of the world, using the normal economics terminology. -- econterms (talk) 14:35, 28 April 2022 (UTC)Reply