Is Automation Labor Share-Displacing? Productivity Growth, Employment, and the Labor Share

Many technological innovations replace workers with machines. But this capital–labor substitution need not reduce aggregate labor demand, because it simultaneously induces four countervail-ing responses: own-industry output effects; cross-industry input–output effects; between-industry shifts; and f...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Autor, David H, Salomons, Anna
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Economics
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Brookings Institution Press 2020
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/124228