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There are two fundamental reasons why factor shares have traditionally been overlooked in the economic literature. First, because of their nature, factor shares are conceptually difficult to define and measure. Second, they have for a long time been perceived as constant across time and space....
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We present a novel way to model technological shocks, with the feature that it can be biased towards more recently installed production units. We show that at one extreme, the shock is like a neutral technological shock, while at the other end of the spectrum, it resembles investment specific...
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This paper studies the coevolution of the fall in the US corporate sector labor share and the rise of business activity in tax-preferred, pass-through form. Reallocating activity to the form it would have taken prior to the Tax Reform Act of 1986 accounts for one third of the decline in the...
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There are two fundamental reasons why factor shares have traditionally been overlooked in the economic literature. First, because of their nature, factor shares are conceptually difficult to define and measure. Second, they have for a long time been perceived as constant across time and space....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011964265
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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This paper examines labor's share of income in Hungary. We find that the trend in labor's share is substantially influenced by the treatment of self-employment; self-employment has declined significantly because of both shifts across sectors and reductions within sectors. Hungary's labor share...
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, productionactivities with a small elasticity of substitution between capital and labor tend to getoffshored from high- to low …
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capital deepening is the primary driver of these patterns. Researchers can directly use the new dataset of labor shares to …
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To what extent can technological advances in the production of capital account for the recent, worldwide decline in the … (EOS) between capital and labor tend to fall below or around one, suggesting that a decline in the price of capital should … of capital relative to output has remained roughly constant, worldwide. This poses a challenge to the view that cheaper …
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To what extent can technological advances in the production of capital account for the recent, worldwide decline in the … (EOS) between capital and labor tend to fall below or around one, suggesting that a decline in the price of capital should … of capital relative to output has remained roughly constant, worldwide. This poses a challenge to the view that cheaper …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012179795