作者：Acemoglu, Daron
作者单位：Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
摘要：This paper studies whether labor scarcity encourages technological advances, that is, technology adoption or innovation, for example, as claimed by Habakkuk in the context of nineteenth-century United States. I define technology as strongly labor saving if technological advances reduce the marginal product of labor and as strongly labor complementary if they increase it. I show that labor scarcity encourages technological advances if technology is strongly labor saving and will discourage them...
作者：Erickson, Timothy; Whited, Toni M.
作者单位：United States Department of Labor; University of Rochester
