ITIF2024企业集中度对生产力和薪资的积极影响分析报告英文版25页

itif.org Corporate Concentration Is Good for Productivity and Wages TRELYSA LONG | MAY 2024 Despite claims by anticorporate neo-Brandeisians, corporate concentration appears positively correlated with higher productivity and wages. So, the push to break up large companies is antiworker and anti-middle class. KEY TAKEAWAYS  Contrary to the prevailing anticorporate narrative, concentration rose only about 1 percentage point from 34.3 percent in 2002 to 35.3 percent in 2017—and the industries that were most concentrated in 2002 became less concentrated by 2017.  In the same period, the most recent Census data available shows there was a positive correlation (0.29) between change in productivity and change wages: Industries that became more concentrated over time also became more productive.  The more concentrated an industry was in 2002, the higher its productivity growth from 2002 to 2017—a correlation of 0.25.  Industries that were more concentrated in 2002 also saw higher inc