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Automation and Welfare: The Role of Bequests and Education
Author: Manuk Ghazanchyan, Alexei Goumilevski, and Alex Mourmouras
Series:
IMF Working Papers
Volume/Issue:
Volume 2024: Issue 011
Language:
English
Publication Date:
12 Jan 2024
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.5089/9798400263026.001
ISBN:
9798400263026
ISSN:
1018-5941
Pages:
41
Keywords:
Automation; Aging; Altruism; Fiscal Policy; Education; Overlapping Generations; appendix B. Replicating Kotlikoff; automation technology; IMF working papers; welfare effect; S model; production function; Income; Human capital; Consumption; Global
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This paper examines the welfare effects of automation in neoclassical growth models with and without intergenerational transfers. In a standard overlapping generations model without such transfers, improvements in automation technologies that would lower welfare can be mitigated by shifts in labor supply related to demographics or pandemics. With perfect intergenerational transfers based on altruism, automation could raise the well-being of all generations. With imperfect altruism, fiscal transfers (universal basic income) and public policies to expand access to education opportunities can alleviate much of the negative effect of automation.
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IMF Working Papers
ISSN:
1018-5941
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