Table 2.12
Corporate-sector income shares, profit rates, and capital-to-output ratio, selected years, 1959–2010
| Income share | Profit rate | Capital-to-output ratio | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labor | Capital | Total | Pretax | Post-tax | ||
| 1959 | 77.5% | 22.5% | 100.0% | 12.6% | 6.9% | 1.78 |
| 1969 | 79.1 | 20.9 | 100.0 | 13.0 | 7.8 | 1.61 |
| 1979 | 81.2 | 18.8 | 100.0 | 9.4 | 5.8 | 2.01 |
| 1989 | 80.0 | 20.0 | 100.0 | 10.8 | 7.8 | 1.85 |
| 1995 | 79.3 | 20.7 | 100.0 | 11.6 | 8.1 | 1.79 |
| 2000 | 81.2 | 18.8 | 100.0 | 11.0 | 7.8 | 1.71 |
| 2007 | 78.0 | 22.0 | 100.0 | 11.1 | 7.5 | 1.99 |
| 2010 | 73.8 | 26.2 | 100.0 | 13.3 | 9.6 | 1.97 |
Source: Authors' analysis of Bureau of Economic Analysis National Income and Product Accounts (Table 1.14) and Fixed Assets Accounts (Table 6.1)
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