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ideology scores from the Manifesto Project. We measure exposure to automation both at the regional level, based on the ex …
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Solow-Swan model. The aggregate production function allows for two types of capital, traditional and automation capital …Prettner (2019) studies the implications of automation for economic growth and the labor share in a variant of the …. Traditional capital and labor are imperfect substitutes whereas automation capital and labor are perfect substitutes. In this …
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though the aggregate production function is Cobb-Douglas. Population aging due to a higher longevity reduces automation in …How does population aging affect economic growth and factor shares in times of increasingly automatable production … processes? The present paper addresses this question in a new macroeconomic model of automation where competitive firms perform …
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While economic theory suggests substitutability between labor and capital, little evidence exists regarding the causal … supply on automation innovation by exploiting an immigrant placement policy in Germany during the 1990s and 2000s. Difference …-in-differences estimates indicate that one additional worker per 1,000 manual and unskilled workers reduces automation innovation by 0 …
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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 …
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We study how technology adoption and changes in global value chain (GVC) integration jointly affect labor shares and business function specialization in a sample of 14 manufacturing industries in 14 European countries in 1999–2011. Our main contribution is to highlight the indirect effect of...
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This paper examines the labor market adjustments to four automation technologies (i.e. robots, communication technology … measure of technology penetration, we estimate changes in regional employment and wages affected by automation technologies … along with the reallocation of workers between sectors. We find that labor market adjustments to automation technologies …
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-adjustment costs in an inflationary environment. The model nests both the original menu-cost model that allows production to be …
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With fixed costs of price and quantity adjustment, output effects of inflation depend on the elasticity of the firm's marginal real revenue. If the elasticity always exceeds minus unity, then output decreases with inflation, while if the elasticity is always less than minus unity, then output...
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Aggregated output in industrialized countries has become less volatile over the past decades. Whether this Great Moderation" can be found in firm level data as well remains disputed. We study the evolution of firm level output volatility using a balanced panel dataset on German firms that covers...
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