[编者按]生产成果需要在劳动和资本两大类要素之间进行分配。在20世纪80年代之前,劳动和资本在收入中占有的份额相对比较稳定,这种稳定性甚至成了一种经济法则。但近20多年来,全球多数国家的劳动收入份额开始持续下降。中国也不例外,其劳动收入份额下降变化的性质和原因近年越来越受到学界关 [Editor's note] The production results need to be divided between the two major categories of labor and capital. Before the 1980s, the share of labor and capital in their incomes was relatively stable, and such stability even became an economic law. However, the share of labor income in most countries in the world has started to decline continuously in the past two decades or so. China is no exception, the nature and causes of the decline in its share of labor income in recent years more and more scholarship