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As the pace of digitalization and automation accelerates globally, and more disruptive innovations in machine learning, artificial intelligence and robotics are expected, new data sources and measurement tools are needed to complement existing valuable statistics and administrative data. This is...
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inequality, and higher productivity growth through automation. In this paper we critically re-assess these predictions by (i … aggregate demand. A second is that the predictions of AI causing massive job losses and faster growth in productivity and GDP … growth and productivity is stagnating and inequality is rising. Our paper provides a theoretical explanation of this in the …
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We sketch a visionary strategy for Europe in which full employment is quickly regained by 2020, income inequality is reduced and the economies are more sustainable. We call this scenario "vibrant". It is contrasted with what would happen if present policies continue within the European Union...
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This paper revisits the important ideas proposed by Atkinson and Stiglitz's seminal 1969 paper on technological change. After linking these ideas to the induced innovation literature of the 1960s and the more recent directed technological change literature, it explains how these three...
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knowledge sector is bounded, as productivity increases, the economy moves from a Solovian zone where wages increase with … productivity, to a Marxian zone where they paradoxically decline with productivity. This is because as consumption of a given good … more unevenly distributed than productivity, technical progress always increases inequality. Redistribution from profits to …
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taxation be structured to improve productivity, incentivize innovation, and ultimately increase welfare? We study these … their productivity and are subject to collateral constraints. The stationary equilibrium features heterogeneous returns and … misallocation of capital. We show that increasing the wealth tax increases aggregate productivity. The gains result from the "use …
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In this chapter, we analyze immigration and its effect on urban and regional economies focusing on productivity and …
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of the empirical findings on the economic impacts of diversity on innovation, productivity, and the labour market. It …
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identified in the structural literature through which EPL-induced job reallocation affects productivity, innovation, and overall …
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