Policy can eliminate technology-induced joblessness. Labor can gain from labor-saving and capitalsaving technologies if its supply is less elastic than capital's. Skill-biased technical change could raise the relative demand for skilled workers faster than the supply of skilled workers increases. Workers can earn more of their income from capital than from working-by owning part of the robots that replace them.
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