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(TFP) that are common across countries. We find that automation displaces employment and reduces labor's share of value … harmonized cross-country and industry data, where we measure automation as industry-level movements in total factor productivity …-added in the industries in which it originates (a direct effect). In the case of employment, these own-industry losses are …
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We provide an argument for long-term automation and decline in the labor income share, driven by capital accumulation … rescaled in the same way. Then ongoing capital accumulation gives rise to progressive automation, and the share of labor income …
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Using a quantitative model that features technical progress in automation and endogenous skill choice, we show that …, given the current U.S. tax system, a sustained fall in automation costs can lead to a massive rise in income inequality. We …
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. Low-skill (high-skill) automation corresponds to tasks performed by low-skill (high-skill) labor being taken over by … capital. Automation displaces the type of labor it directly affects, depressing its wage. Through ripple effects, automation … also affects the real wage of other workers. Counteracting these forces, automation creates a positive productivity effect …
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created. In a static version where capital is fixed and technology is exogenous, automation reduces employment and the labor … capital accumulation and the direction of research towards automation and the creation of new tasks. If the long-run rental … rate of capital relative to the wage is sufficiently low, the long-run equilibrium involves automation of all tasks …
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This paper points out that modeling automation as factor-augmenting technological change has several unappealing … reduce the equilibrium wage (for realistic parameter values). This approach to automation also enables a discussion of … capital, the deepening of automation (whereby machines become more productive in tasks that are already automated), and the …
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employment by 1.14–1.96%, but in this case efficiency can be increased by imposing an additional automation tax to reduce the … lower capital taxes with automation taxes can increase employment much more than the uniform reductions in capital taxes …. As a consequence, it has promoted inefficiently high levels of automation. Moving from the US tax system in the 2010s to …
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This paper studies why the General Theory had so much impact on the economics profession through the 1960s, why that … impact began to wane in the 1970s, and why many economic policymakers cling to many of the tenets of the General Theory. We … qualitatively to patterns discussed in the General Theory, that econometric developments in the area of simultaneous equations made …
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We show that sentiments - self-fulfilling changes in beliefs that are orthogonal to fundamentals - can drive persistent aggregate fluctuations under rational expectations. Such fluctuations can occur even in the absence of any exogenous aggregate fundamental shocks. In addition, sentiments also...
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Base in Europe, would apportion a firm's worldwide profits using formulas based on the location of employment, capital or … income, since employment and other factors on which they are based do a very poor job of explaining a firm's profits. For … example, the magnitude of property, employment and sales explains less than 22 percent of the variation in profits between …
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