The elusive explanation for the declining labor share

GM Grossman, E Oberfield - Annual Review of Economics, 2022 - annualreviews.org
A vast literature seeks to measure and explain the apparent decline in the labor share in
national income that has occurred in recent times in the United States and elsewhere. The …

The composite link between technological change and employment: A survey of the literature

J Mondolo - Journal of Economic Surveys, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The role played by technological change in employment trends has long been debated and
investigated, but the evidence has proven to be inconclusive. This paper aims to shed light …

Gpt-4 technical report

J Achiam, S Adler, S Agarwal, L Ahmad… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
We report the development of GPT-4, a large-scale, multimodal model which can accept
image and text inputs and produce text outputs. While less capable than humans in many …

Gpts are gpts: An early look at the labor market impact potential of large language models

T Eloundou, S Manning, P Mishkin, D Rock - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
We investigate the potential implications of large language models (LLMs), such as
Generative Pre-trained Transformers (GPTs), on the US labor market, focusing on the …

The adjustment of labor markets to robots

W Dauth, S Findeisen, J Suedekum… - Journal of the …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
We use detailed administrative data to study the adjustment of local labor markets to
industrial robots in Germany. Robot exposure, as predicted by a shift-share variable, is …

Artificial intelligence and democracy: A conceptual framework

A Jungherr - Social media+ society, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
The success and widespread deployment of artificial intelligence (AI) have raised
awareness of the technology's economic, social, and political consequences. Each new step …

Automation and new tasks: How technology displaces and reinstates labor

D Acemoglu, P Restrepo - Journal of economic perspectives, 2019 - aeaweb.org
We present a framework for understanding the effects of automation and other types of
technological changes on labor demand, and use it to interpret changes in US employment …

Robot adoption and energy performance: Evidence from Chinese industrial firms

G Huang, LY He, X Lin - Energy Economics, 2022 - Elsevier
With the continuous development of technology, intelligent production, which brings huge
changes to social welfare, has gradually become the main trend in the economic …

Shift-share designs: Theory and inference

R Adao, M Kolesár, E Morales - The Quarterly Journal of …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
We study inference in shift-share regression designs, such as when a regional outcome is
regressed on a weighted average of sectoral shocks, using regional sector shares as …

Distorted innovation: does the market get the direction of technology right?

D Acemoglu - AEA Papers and Proceedings, 2023 - aeaweb.org
In the presence of markup differences, externalities, and other social effects, the direction of
innovation can be systematically distorted. I build a simple model of endogenous technology …