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Productivity growth is essentially the sum of “real” or inflation-adjusted wage growth and margin expansion. In other words, companies can pass through productivity gains to workers (in the form of higher wages) or they can take it all and boost profit margins (which will reduce worker’s share of total income). Expanding margins will also show up as inflation and drive real wages lower (since real wage…