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as a non-linear function of the Weibull distribution of capital-labor ratio. Empirical findings support the choice of a …
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The role of capital accumulation as a driver of the labor income share requires capital and labor to be substitutes, which appears paradoxical in a world predominantly characterized by complementarity between capital and labor. This paper argues that the composition of skills in the labor force...
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on inflation; b) introducing growth generating mechanisms …
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Cobb-Douglas technology). Given the relevance of σ for economic growth and the functional distribution of income, the …
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In a Walrasian labor market, the labor income share is constant under the assumptions of a Cobb-Douglas production function and perfect competition. Given the observed decline of the labor share in recent decades, this paper relaxes these assumptions, proposes a time-series calculation of the...
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Electricity is a general purpose technology and the catalyst for the second industrial revolution. What was its impact on the structure of employment? We use U.S. Census data from 1910 to 1940 and measure electrification with the length of higher-voltage electricity lines. Instrumenting for...
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inequality, and higher productivity growth through automation. In this paper we critically re-assess these predictions by (i … in endogenous growth theory, but modified to allow for demand-side constraints. This is a novel approach, given that … endogenous growth models, and including most recent work on AI in economic growth, are largely supply-driven.Our contribution is …
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In "The Race between Man and Machine: Implications of Technology for Growth, Factor Shares, and Employment," Acemoglu … and Restrepo (2018b) combine the task-based model of the labor market with an endogenous growth model to model the … economic consequences of artificial intelligence (AI). This paper provides an alternative endogenous growth model that …
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-approach to labor markets and endogenous growth theory. Therefore, the recent integration of the task-approach into an endogenous … growth model by Acemoglu and Restrepo (AR) is a useful advance. However, it is subject to the shortcoming that it does not … AI abilities for use within endogenous growth models. This more ability-sensitive specification of the task …
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decline to either the slowing of population growth, and/or growing market concentration, zombie-firm congestion, slower … entrepreneurship in growth theories …
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