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Growth, Automation and the Long Run Share of Labor / Debraj Ray, Dilip Mookherjee.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ray, Debraj.
- Series:
- Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w26658.
- NBER working paper series no. w26658
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2020.
- Summary:
- We provide an argument for long-term automation and decline in the labor income share, driven by capital accumulation rather than technical progress or rising markups. We emphasize a fundamental asymmetry across physical and human capital. An individual can indefinitely replicate her claims on the former, but -- after a point -- her human endowment cannot be cloned and rescaled in the same way. Then ongoing capital accumulation gives rise to progressive automation, and the share of labor income converges to zero. The displacement of human labor is gradual, and real wages could rise indefinitely. The results extend to endogenous technical change.
- Notes:
- Print version record
- January 2020.
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