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The rise of generative AI : modelling exposure, substitution, and inequality effects on the US labour market
Auer, Raphael A.; Köpfer, David; Švéda, Josef - 2024
How exposed is the labour market to ever-advancing AI capabilities, to what extent does this substitute human labour, and how will it affect inequality? We address these questions in a simulation of 711 US occupations classified by the importance and level of cognitive skills. We base our...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015077845
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Cross-country income differences and technology diffusion in a competitive world
Irmen, Andreas - 2008 - This Version: December 9, 2008
This paper develops a new open-economy endogenous growth model where technology diffusion allows for a stable and non-degenerate world income distribution. In accordance with the empirical literature, I find that country characteristics such as the social infrastructure, the degree of openness,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003784626
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Cross-country income differences and technology diffusion in a competitive world
Irmen, Andreas - 2008
This paper develops a new open-economy endogenous growth model where technology diffusion allows for a stable and non-degenerate world income distribution. In accordance with the empirical literature, I find that country characteristics such as the social infrastructure, the degree of openness,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003805991
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Can't we all be more like Scandinavians? : asymmetric growth and institutions in an Interdependent world
Acemoglu, Daron; Robinson, James A.; Verdier, Thierry - 2012
Because of their more limited inequality and more comprehensive social welfare systems, many perceive average welfare to be higher in Scandinavian societies than in the United States. Why then does the United States not adopt Scandinavian-style institutions? More generally, in an interdependent...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012825884
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Cross-Country Income Differences and Technology Diffusion in a Competitive World
Irmen, Andreas - 2012
This paper develops a new open-economy endogenous growth model where technology diffusion allows for a stable and non-degenerate world income distribution. In accordance with the empirical literature, I find that country characteristics such as the social infrastructure, the degree of openness,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012754962
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Factor Income Distribution and Endogenous Economic Growth - When Piketty Meets Romer
Irmen, Andreas - 2017
We scrutinize Thomas Piketty's (2014) theory concerning the relationship between an economy's long-run growth rate, its … of Piketty's Second Fundamental Law of Capitalism does not hold. In line with Piketty's theory a smaller long-run growth …, both the economy's savings rate and its growth rate are endogenous variables whereas in Piketty's theory they are both …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012965706
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Jánossy elmélete az új növekedéselmélet tükrében
Tarján, Tamás - 2010
If Janossy's theory should concisely be drafted, one might say that he had been researching the "real carrier of … economic development" in a very original way and having formulated his theory in a specific language. He managed to identify … growth theory that have appeared in the nineties. The "real carrier of economic development" matches to the "human capital …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003935473
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Innovation and imitation in a model of North-South trade
Borota, Teodora - 2010
product groups but different quality, which is not matched by the predictions of traditional and new trade theory. This paper …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003954544
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Directed technological change and energy efficiency improvements
Witajewski-Baltvilks, Jan; Verdolini, Elena; Tavoni, Massimo - 2015
This paper applies the Directed Technical Change (DTC) framework to study improvements in the efficiency of energy use. We present a theoretical model which (1) shows that the demand for energy is shifted down by innovations in energy intensive sectors and (2) highlights the drivers of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011334550
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Maintenance costs, obsolescence, and endogenous growth
Berden, Koen G.; Marrewijk, Charles van - 2001
We analyze the impact of obsolescence of economic inventions by incorporating maintenance costsin the endogenous growth model of expanding product varieties. This contrasts with the existingliterature, which ignores maintenance costs and uses the model of quality improvements todescribe...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011317468