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Guillaume Bazot

Faculty Aix-Marseille UniversitéFaculté d'économie et de gestion (FEG)

Macro, labor and international economics
Bazot
Status
Professor
Research domain(s)
Finance, Macroeconomics
Thesis
2011, École des hautes études en sciences sociales
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AMU - AMSE
5-9 Boulevard Maurice Bourdet, CS 50498
​13205 Marseille Cedex 1

Abstract Based on the calibration of a simple model, we decompose the decline in the labor share into four structural components: task displacement, labor rents, capital rents, and labor-capital substitution effect. Our estimation suggests that task displacement and the switch of distributed rents from labor to capital are the main drivers of the labor share decline over the past three decades. On the other hand, the neoclassical substitution effect seems not to have a long term impact on the labor share.
Keywords Productivity, Rate of return on capital, Markup, Capital rents, Labor rents, Automation, Task displacement, Labor share