There is a growing concern in advanced countries that the position of less skilled workers has deteriorated, either through their ability to secure jobs and/or their ability to earn a decent wage. Some have linked this decline to modern computing technologies. This paper surveys the evidence on...

Analyse und Ausblick auf die Zukunft der Autoindustrie. Die Zeitenwende wird in 3 "Wellen" skizziert: Antriebsintelligenz (abgasfreies Fahren), künstliche Intelligenz (autonom fahrende Autos) und Schwarmintelligenz / Sharing Economy (gemeinschaftliche Kfz-Nutzung). (2-3)

We introduce automation into a standard model of capital accumulation and show that (i) there is the possibility of perpetual growth, even in the absence of technological progress; (ii) the long-run economic growth rate declines with population growth, which is consistent with the available...

The paper consider the skill-biased "share-altering" technical change hypothesis in a spatial general equilibrium model where skilled and unskilled individual may exhibit different preferences for local amenities. A main novelty - both for labour and urban economics- is that, under this...