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The implications of automation for economic growth and the labor share of income

We introduce automation into the standard Solovian 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 empirical evidence; (iii) there is a unique share of savings diverted to automation that maximizes the long-run growth rate of the economy; (iv) the labor share declines with automation to an extent that fits to the observed pattern.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: ECON WPS ; No. 04/2016

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Macroeconomic Analyses of Economic Development
Technological Change: Choices and Consequences; Diffusion Processes
One, Two, and Multisector Growth Models
Thema
automation
robots
machine learning
perpetual economic growth
declining labor share
inequality

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Prettner, Klaus
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Vienna University of Technology, Institute of Statistics and Mathematical Methods in Economics, Research Group Economics
(wo)
Vienna
(wann)
2016

Handle
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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Prettner, Klaus
  • Vienna University of Technology, Institute of Statistics and Mathematical Methods in Economics, Research Group Economics

Entstanden

  • 2016

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