The implications of automation for economic growth and the labor share

Klaus Prettner

No 18-2016, Hohenheim Discussion Papers in Business, Economics and Social Sciences from University of Hohenheim, Faculty of Business, Economics and Social Sciences

Abstract: 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.

Keywords: automation; robots; machine learning; perpetual economic growth; declining labor share; inequality (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O11 O33 O41 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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