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Automation, Economic Growth, and the Labor Share - A Comment on Prettner (2019)
Heer, Burkhard - 2019
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...
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Indebted Demand
Mian, Atif R. - 2020
We propose a theory of indebted demand, capturing the idea that large debt burdens by households and governments lower aggregate demand, and thus natural interest rates. At the core of the theory is the simple yet under-appreciated observation that borrowers and savers differ in their marginal...
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Inequality Undermines Democracy and Growth
Gylfason, Thorvaldur - 2019
Income equality and trust seem to go along with several other ingredients of social capital as determinants of economic growth across the globe. In a large sample of countries, equality in the distribution of income as measured by the World Bank and by The Standardized World Income Inequality...
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Richer or More Numerous or Both? The Role of Population and Economic Growth for Top Income Shares
Krolage, Carla - 2019
When measuring income inequality over long periods of time, accounting for population and productivity growth is …
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How Economic Growth Impinges on Income Inequalities?
Alves, José; Coelho, Jose Carlos; Roxo, Alexandre - 2022
Performing a panel data analysis for OECD countries, during the period between 1990 and 2019, this article investigates the relationship between economic growth and income inequalities. The main objective is to understand how the GDP and GNI per capita affect income inequality and how they...
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A New Ricardian Model of Trade, Growth and Inequality
Marjit, Sugata - 2021
The classical Wage Fund (Capital or Credit) framework is integrated with the simplest text-book version of the Ricardian model of comparative advantage, generating a model that replicates important features of the neo-classical production theory involving capital and labour without neo-classical...
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Structural Change in Production Networks and Economic Growth
Gaggl, Paul; Gorry, Aspen; vom Lehn, Christian - 2023
stemming from reallocation induced by structural change. At the same time, productivity growth within the input-output network …
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The Impact of Product and Labour Market Reform on Growth : Evidence for OECD Countries Based on Local Projections
de Haan, Jakob - 2020
This paper examines the impact of labour and product market reforms on economic growth in 25 OECD countries between 1985 and 2013, and tests whether this impact is conditioned by the fiscal policy stance, i.e. whether there are fiscal expansions or adjustments. Our local projection results...
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Structural Change and Productivity Growth in Europe - Past, Present and Future
Duernecker, Georg; Sanchez-Martinez, Miguel - 2021
This paper studies the effect of structural change on the historical path of aggregate labor productivity growth for a … that structural change may have on future productivity growth. We document that the observed reallocation of economic … activity since the 1970s towards the service sector has exerted a strongly negative effect on aggregate productivity growth in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013211112
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Heavyweights - The Impact of Large Businesses on Productivity Growth
Falck, Oliver - 2021
business size in an industry fosters growth in terms of total factor productivity (TFP). The results suggest that the overall …
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