Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/181603 
Authors: 
Year of Publication: 
2018
Series/Report no.: 
Beiträge zur Jahrestagung des Vereins für Socialpolitik 2018: Digitale Wirtschaft - Session: Growth I No. A04-V3
Publisher: 
ZBW - Leibniz-Informationszentrum Wirtschaft, Kiel, Hamburg
Abstract: 
This paper presents general results on the effect of endogenous technical change on relative wages in a simple general equilibrium model that covers several more elaborate models of technology choice. The results are based on a simple and intuitive notion of complementarity between technology and labor inputs, and characterize necessary and sufficient conditions for central results from the literature on endogenous technical change. The developed theory generalizes existing work to technologies that are not purely factor-augmenting, production functions that are not differentiable in technology, and settings with more than two (and potentially infinitely many) different types of labor. Applying the theory to assignment models of the labor market, the paper derives new results on the endogenous determination of automation technology, both in a closed economy and in a two country setting with international trade, and sketches directions for future research on endogenous technical change in assignment models.
Subjects: 
Endogenous Technical Change
Wage Inequality
Factor Demand
Automation
Assignment Model
Monotone Comparative Statics
JEL: 
J24
J31
O33
Document Type: 
Conference Paper

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