Existing studies on the downward trend in the labor share of income mostly focus on changeswithin individual countries. I document, however, that half of the global decline in the laborshare of income can be traced to the relocation of activities between countries. I develop atwo-country model...

Motivated by a set of stylised facts based on provincial data for India, this paper investigates the incidence of urban poverty by modelling the impact of technological progress in the formal sectors of the economy on the urban informal wage in a four-sector general equilibrium framework with...

We incorporate endogenous production of fake products into a standard quality ladder model. The fake producers deceive the buyer of intermediate inputs by creating unproductive products that have similar appearance to genuine counterparts. We study subsidies to R&D and those to inputs. A higher...

Based on the methodology proposed by Frey and Osborne (2017), we use their estimates for the probability of automation of occupations together with household survey data on the occupational distribution of employment to provide a risk assessment for the threat that automation may pose to the...

In spite of the growing literature on polarization, relatively little is known about the individual-level patterns underlying the decline of routine occupations and its links with informal employment. To shed light on this, we examine the flows of formal and informal workers into and out of...

We develop a growth model that features the endogenous two-tier innovations of information carrier technology and production technology. Information carrier technology promotes production technology innovation and thus economic growth through improving the preservation and dissemination of...

We build a novel endogenous growth model with information carrier technology, in which knowledge may be lost in storage and dissemination. In the asymptotic balanced growth path equilibrium, we establish two main findings. First, the growth rate of information carrier technology and the...

In spite of the growing literature on polarization, relatively little is known about the individual-level patterns underlying the decline of routine occupations and its link with informal employment in a middle-income country context. To shed light on this, we examine the ows of formal and...

In the transition periods between new technologies, marked setbacks in productivity growth are possible. Whereas new private goods are not fully visible in national accounts, often only their negative substitution effects turn up. If this is a market phenomenon, it should be reflected in weaker...

In the transition periods between new technologies, marked setbacks in productivity growth are possible. Whereas new private goods are not fully visible in national accounts, often only their negative substitution effects turn up. If this is a market phenomenon, it should be reflected in weaker...