Technological progress, income distribution, and unemployment : theory and empirics / Hideyuki Adachi, Kazuyuki Inagaki, Tamotsu Nakamura, Yasuyuki Osumi.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Adachi, Hideyuki, 1940- author.

Inagaki, Kazuyuki, author.

Nakamura, Tamotsu, author.

Osumi, Yasuyuki, author.

Series:

SpringerBriefs in economics

Springer briefs in economics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Macroeconomics.

Economic policy.

Economic development.

Econometrics.

Physical Description:

xi, 90 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Singapore : Springer, [2019]

Summary:

This volume develops original methods of analyzing biased technological progress in the theory and empirics of economic growth and income distribution. Motivated by sharp increases in wage and income inequalities in the world since the beginning of the new century, many macroeconomists have begun to realize the importance of biased technological changes. However, the comprehensive explanations have not yet appeared. This volume analyzes the effects of factor-biased technological progress on growth and income distribution and shows that long-run trends of the capital-income ratio and capital share of income consistent with Piketty's 2014 empirical results emerge. Incorporating the modified version of induced innovation theory into the standard neoclassical growth model, it also explains the long-run fluctuations of growth and income distribution consistent with the data shown in Piketty. Introducing a wage-setting function, the neoclassical growth model is modified to account for unemployment as well as to examine the dynamics of unemployment and the labor share of income under biased technological progress. Applying a new econometric method to Japanese industrial data, the authors test the key assumptions employed and important results derived in the theoretical part of this book.

Contents:

Growth and income distribution under biased technological progress

Growth and income distribution under induced innovation

Technological progress and unemployment

Empirical analysis of biased technological progress

Concluding remarks.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 89-90).

ISBN:

981133725X

9789811337253

OCLC:

1072025580