Prettner (2019) studies the implications of automation for economic growth and the labor share in a variant of the … Solow-Swan model. The aggregate production function allows for two types of capital, traditional and automation capital …. Traditional capital and labor are imperfect substitutes whereas automation capital and labor are perfect substitutes. In this …

processes? The present paper addresses this question in a new macroeconomic model of automation where competitive firms perform … and substitute for labor in the performance of tasks. Automation is labor-augmenting in the reduced-form aggregate … though the aggregate production function is Cobb-Douglas. Population aging due to a higher longevity reduces automation in …

change or globalization, but also by the dynamics of factor taxation, automation capital (robots), and population growth … shares and in automation capital. Second, we analyse and calibrate a neoclassical growth model extended to include factor … taxation, automation capital, and capital adjustment costs. Labor and automation capital are perfect substitutes whereas labor …

the share of the outsourced workforce is not too large, this wage-moderation effect on domestic employment outweighs the … direct substitution effect so that domestic employment increases in unionized firms as outsourcing costs fall. This does not … for employment. However, except for low outsourcing activities, the impact of these policy measures will become smaller as …

Prettner (2019) studies the implications of automation for economic growth and the labor share in a variant of the … Solow-Swan model. The aggregate production function allows for two types of capital, traditional and automation capital …. Traditional capital and labor are imperfect substitutes whereas automation capital and labor are perfect substitutes. In this …

processes? The present paper addresses this question in a new macroeconomic model of automation where competitive firms perform … and substitute for labor in the performance of tasks. Automation is labor-augmenting in the reduced-form aggregate … though the aggregate production function is Cobb-Douglas. Population aging due to a higher longevity reduces automation in …

We study the impact of tax policy on wage negotiations, workers' effort, employment, output and welfare when workers … literature that a revenue-neutral increase in the degree of tax progression is good for employment does not carry over to the … increases employment and output, we cannot rule out negative effects from an increase in tax progression when tax progression is …

symmetric marginal employment subsidies where firms are rewarded when they increase employment but punished when they reduce … their workforce, we consider an asymmetric scheme that only rewards employment expansion. This changes the incidence … employment and welfare. For moderate subsidy rates, all unions prefer to restrain their wage claims. At sufficiently high subsidy …

affects employment, wage inequality, public expenditures, and aggregate income in the low-wage sector. It is shown that a … employment depending on the subsidies' incidence and income effects. Wage subsidies also allow a more equal income distribution …

in Germany, on employment, wage inequality, public expenditures, and incomes of poor households: 1) a statutory minimum … subsidies, the government can ensure more favorable employment and income effects. Combining a minimum wage with a wage subsidy …