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  • Titel: The trend in labour income share: The role of technological change and imperfect labour markets
  • Beteiligte: Carbonero, Francesco [VerfasserIn]; Offermanns, Christian [VerfasserIn]; Weber, Enzo [VerfasserIn]
  • Erschienen: Nürnberg: Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Bavarian Graduate Program in Economics (BGPE), 2017
  • Sprache: Englisch
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  • Beschreibung: The non-constancy of factor shares is drawing the attention of many researchers. We document an average drop of the labour share of 8 percentage points for eight European countries and the US between 1980 and 2007. We investigate theoretically and empirically two mechanisms: the substitution between Information Communication Technology (ICT) and labour and the presence of hiring costs. We find that the ICTlabour replacement is a promising channel to explain the decline of the labour share, though labour market frictions takes part of its explanatory power over. In particular, hiring costs have a bigger role in Europe than in the US. Finally, by modelling the elasticity of substitution between ICT and labour as a function of institutional and structural variables, we find that it correlates with the share of routine occupations (positively) and with the share of high-skill workers (negatively).
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