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employment opportunities for which they have comparative advantage. This framework yields a simple equation linking wage changes … offshoring) rather than those of rising market power, markups or deunionization, which themselves do not appear to play a major …
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This paper studies the effects of automation in economies with labor market distortions that generate worker rents--wages above opportunity cost--in some jobs. We show that automation targets high-rent tasks, dissipating rents and amplifying wage losses from automation. It also reduces...
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This chapter reviews recent advances in the task model and shows how this framework can be put to work to understand the major labor market trends of the last several decades. Production in each industry necessitates the completion of a range of tasks, which can be allocated to workers of...
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optimal taxation of capital and labor would raise employment by 4.02% and the labor share by 0.78 percentage points, and … employment by 1.14-1.96%, but in this case efficiency can be increased by imposing an additional automation tax to reduce the … workers, reducing employment below its socially optimal level. We additionally show that reducing labor taxes or combining …
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