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Inspect public data requests and copy reproducible analysis code. Responses preserve source references, units, coverage, and missing-data states.
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62 / 62Economy and prices
Labor share and productivity
Long-run quarterly BLS panel retrieved through FRED for 3 aggregate business scopes from 1947-Q1 through 2026-Q2, keeping labor share, labor productivity, and real hourly compensation as separate 2017=100 indexes with release gaps and revision states explicit.Research promptHow have labor share and the indexed relationship between productivity and real hourly compensation evolved without treating the gap as a profit or market-power measure?BLS labor share, productivity, and real-compensation indexes across three aggregate business scopes since 1947.
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/api/public/labor-share-productivity?scopes=nonfarm-business%2Cbusiness%2Cnonfinancial-corporations&metric=labor-share&from=1947-Q1&to=2026-Q2Ready to run this request.The response envelope, headers, timing, byte count, and bounded preview will appear here.
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