Technological Progress, Employment and the Lifetime of Capital

Raouf Boucekkine (), Natali Hritonenko () and Yuri Yatsenko
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Natali Hritonenko: Prairie View A&M University, USA

No 1550, AMSE Working Papers from Aix-Marseille School of Economics, France

Abstract: We study the impact of technological progress on the level of employment in a vintage capital model where: i) capital and labor are gross complementary; ii) labor supply is endogenous and indivisible; iii) there is full employment, and iv) the rate of labor-saving technological progress is endogenous. We characterize the stationary distributions of vintage capital goods and the corresponding equilibrium values for employment and capital lifetime. It is shown that both variables are non-monotonic functions of technological progress indicators. Technological accelerations are found to increase employment provided innovations are not too radical.

Keywords: Vintage capital; Technological progress; Employment; Compensation theory (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 38 pages
Date: 2015-12, Revised 2015-12
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