Is automation labor-displacing? Productivity growth, employment, and the labor share

D Autor, A Salomons - 2018 - nber.org
Many technological innovations replace workers with machines, but this capital-labor
substitution need not reduce aggregate labor demand because it simultaneously induces …

Production and welfare: progress in economic measurement

DW Jorgenson - Journal of Economic Literature, 2018 - aeaweb.org
While the GDP was intended by its originators as a measure of production, the absence of a
measure of welfare in the national accounts has led to widespread misuse of the GDP to …

[PDF][PDF] The labor share: A review of theory and evidence

D Schneider - 2011 - econstor.eu
The labor share is defined as the share of value added which is payed out to workers. It is
therefore often also called the wage share. Generally it is assumed that value added is …

The great diversification and its undoing

V Carvalho, X Gabaix - American Economic Review, 2013 - aeaweb.org
We investigate the hypothesis that macroeconomic fluctuations are primitively the results of
many microeconomic shocks. We define fundamental volatility as the volatility that would …

The decline in the wage share: falling bargaining power of labour or technological progress? Industry-level evidence from the OECD

A Guschanski, Ö Onaran - Socio-Economic Review, 2022 - academic.oup.com
We investigate whether the downward trend in the wage share is driven by technological
change or a decline in labour's bargaining power. We present an econometric analysis …

Artificial intelligence and productivity: An intangible assets approach

C Corrado, J Haskel… - Oxford Review of …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Can artificial intelligence (AI) raise productivity? If we regard AI as a combination of software,
hardware, and database use, then it can be modelled as a combination of the deployment of …

Intangible capital and labor productivity growth: Panel evidence for the EU from 1998–2005

F Roth, AE Thum - Review of Income and Wealth, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Using new international comparable data on intangible capital investment by business
within a panel analysis between 1998 and 2005 in an EU country sample, a positive and …

Revisiting intangible capital and labour productivity growth, 2000–2015: Accounting for the crisis and economic recovery in the EU

F Roth - Journal of Intellectual Capital, 2020 - emerald.com
Purpose This paper aims to revisit the relationship between intangible capital and labour
productivity growth using the largest, up-to-date macro database (2000–2015) available to …

The relative weight of manufacturing and services in Europe: An innovation perspective

C Castaldi - Technological forecasting and Social change, 2009 - Elsevier
This paper uses an innovation-based taxonomy of both manufacturing and service
industries to assess the role of the process of structural change of the last 25 years on the …

The differential role of manufacturing and non-manufacturing TFP growth in economic growth

F Jia, X Ma, X Xu, L Xie - Structural Change and Economic Dynamics, 2020 - Elsevier
Applying the methods of growth accounting decomposition and econometric regressions to
a sample of developed economies over the period of 1970–2011, this study examines the …