| Reference : Automation, Economic Growth, and the Labor Share - A Comment on Prettner (2019) |
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| Business & economic sciences : Macroeconomics & monetary economics | |||
| http://hdl.handle.net/10993/42039 | |||
| Automation, Economic Growth, and the Labor Share - A Comment on Prettner (2019) | |
| English | |
Irmen, Andreas  [University of Luxembourg > Faculty of Law, Economics and Finance (FDEF) > Center for Research in Economic Analysis (CREA) >] | |
| Heer, Burkhard [] | |
| 2019 | |
| CESifo | |
| CESifo Working Paper No. 7730 | |
| 17 | |
| No | |
| Munich | |
| Germany | |
| [en] automation ; declining labor share ; , capital accumulation ; long-run growth | |
| [en] Prettner (2019) studies the implications of automation for economic growth and the labor share
in a variant of the Solow-Swan model. The aggregate production function allows for two types of capital, traditional and automation capital. Traditional capital and labor are imperfect substitutes whereas automation capital and labor are perfect substitutes. In this paper, we point to a flaw in Prettner’s analysis that invalidates his main analytical and computational findings. In contrast to Prettner, we argue that both kinds of capital are perfect substitutes as stores of value, and, therefore, must earn the same rate of return in equilibrium. Our computational analysis shows that the model dramatically overestimates the actual decline in the US labor share over the last 50 years. | |
| Inter Mobility Program of the FNR Luxembourg (“Competitive Growth Theory - CGT”) | |
| Researchers | |
| http://hdl.handle.net/10993/42039 | |
| https://ideas.repec.org/e/pir7.html |
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