Labour share of income (Part 2 – The difficulty of overcoming wage stagnation) Phuah Eng Chye (2 June 2018) In the 1970s, policy makers were concerned by how wage rises were fuelling cost-push inflation. When wage stagnation emerged in Japan following the collapse of its asset markets in 1990, it was greeted as a novelty … “Labour share of income (Part 2 – The difficulty of overcoming wage stagnation)”