recommending cost effective improvements to building energy efficiency and lowering overall emissions. In the UK, building … estimate the cost-effective performance of a building and thus create perverse incentives that may lead to additional CO2 … emissions. In this regard, the SAP standard confounds cost-effectiveness, energy efficiency and environmental performance giving …

We present a framework for understanding the effects of automation and other types of technological changes on labor … allocation of tasks to capital and labor - the task content of production. Automation, which enables capital to replace labor in … a result, automation always reduces the labor share in value added and may reduce labor demand even as it raises …