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2016

The implications of automation for economic growth and the labor share

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We introduce automation into a standard 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 long-run growth; (iv) the labor share declines with automation to an extent that fits to the observed pattern over the last decades.

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Hohenheim discussion papers in business, economics and social sciences; 2016,18

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Faculty of Business, Economics and Social Sciences
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Institute of Economics

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330 Economics

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@techreport{Prettner2016, url = {https://hohpublica.uni-hohenheim.de/handle/123456789/6088}, author = {Prettner, Klaus}, title = {The implications of automation for economic growth and the labor share}, year = {2016}, school = {Universität Hohenheim}, series = {Hohenheim discussion papers in business, economics and social sciences}, }