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The characteristics and geographic distribution of robot hubs in U.S. manufacturing establishments
Brynjolfsson, Erik; Buffington, Catherine; Goldschlag, … - Leibniz-Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung Halle - 2023
We use data from the Annual Survey of Manufactures to study the characteristics and geography of investments in robots across U.S. manufacturing establishments. We find that robotics adoption and robot intensity (the number of robots per employee) is much more strongly related to establishment...
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De-Skilling : Evidence from Late Nineteenth Century American Manufacturing by Jeremy Atack, Robert a. Margo, Paul W. Rhode
Atack, Jeremy; Margo, Robert; Rhode, Paul W. - 2023
The long-standing view in US economic history is that the shift in manufacturing in the nineteenth century from the artisan shop to the mechanized factory led to “labor deskilling.” Craft workers were displaced by mix of semi-skilled operatives, unskilled workers, and a small force of...
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Alterung und Arbeitsmarkt : eine Untersuchung zum Einfluss des Alters von Beschäftigten auf Produktivität, Innovation und Mobilität
Schneider, Lutz - 2011
Die vorliegende Untersuchung hat die Folgen der Alterung von Beschäftigten auf den Arbeitsmarkt zum Gegenstand. Namentlich werden die Produktivitäts- und Lohn-, die Innovations- sowie die Mobilitätseffekte des Alters auf empirischem Weg analysiert. Der räumliche Fokus liegt dabei auf dem...
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Market power, economies of scale and the role of knowledge for economic growth
Brandt, Nicola (contributor) - 2002 - [Elektronische Ressource]
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Positionierung der deutschen Industrie im globalen Konsolidierungsprozess : im Auftrag des Bundesministeriums für Wirtschaft und Technologie
Reinhard, Michael; Schedl, Hans - 2007
Die vorliegende Studie wurde im Auftrag des Bundesministeriums für Wirtschaft und Technologie erstellt und im Oktober … Ergebnisse in Deutschland, Frankreich, Großbritannien, Italien, Japan, Spanien und den USA. Insbesondere die Konsequenzen für … Deutschland. Neben dem Verarbeitenden Gewerbe insgesamt wurden die Branchen Chemische Industrie, Maschinenbau, Elektrotechnik und …
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Structural change, wage inequality and technology foresight policy
Puppato, Fernanda - 2016
The thesis is organized in a set of studies divided in three chapters. Chapter 2 and 3 focus on the Argentine and Brazilian industrial development empirically and they are based on the Analysis Program of Industrial Dynamics database (PADI) (Katz and Stumpo, 2001). PADI covers 28 manufacturing...
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Agglomeration economies and productivity growth : US cities,1880 - 1930
Klein, Alexander; Crafts, Nicholas - 2015
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Agglomeration economies and productivity growth : US cities, 1880 - 1930
Klein, Alexander; Crafts, Nicholas - 2015
We investigate the role of industrial structure in labor productivity growth in U.S. cities between 1880 and 1930 using a new dataset constructed from the Census of Manufactures. We find that increases in specialization were associated with faster productivity growth but that diversity only had...
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Size, Trade, Technology and the Division of Labor
Limão, Nuno; Xu, Yang - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
We model the implications of the classical ideas that larger markets allow for a finer division of labor and this division feeds back into larger market size. Market size affects specialization due to firm-level increasing returns to scale arising from fixed costs of adopting...
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The rise of specialized firms
Ekerdt, Lorenz K. F.; Wu, Kai-Jie - 2024
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