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Recent evidence suggests that automation technologies entail a trade-off between productivity gains and employment …. It shows significant productivity and employment gains from automation in Indonesian manufacturing during the years 2008 … plausible reasons for the absence of this trade-off. First, it documents the presence of diminishing productivity returns to …
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automation, health care, and energy, and correcting these distortions could have sizable welfare benefits …
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In this paper we aim to analyze the productivity spillovers of foreign affiliated and domestic firms in Turkish … the existence of positive and significant productivity spillovers among the neighborhood firms. We also find that an … increase in the share of foreign affiliated firms in a given industry has positive impact on the productivity level of …
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artificial intelligence seem to offer a vast potential to boost productivity and living standards. However, aggregate … productivity growth has declined sharply across the OECD over the past decades. Estonia is no exception, though it is well placed … digital infrastructure and world-leading e-government services. Turning this potential into a productivity boost necessitates …
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Over the last decade the World Management Survey (WMS) has collected firm-level management practices data across multiple sectors and countries. We developed the survey to try to explain the large and persistent TFP differences across firms and countries. This review paper discusses what has...
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effects on job separations and small positive effects on job findings. Labour costs are shown to be a major driver of cross …-country differences: in countries with lower labour costs, robot exposure had more positive effects on hirings and more negative effects … workers in countries with lower labour costs, robot exposure had a beneficial effect on transitions. Our results imply that …
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This paper presents a novel stylized fact and analyzes its contribution to the skill bias of technical change in U.S. manufacturing. The share of skilled labor embedded in intermediate inputs correlates strongly with the skill share employed in final production. This finding points toward an...
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productivity of skilled labor relative to unskilled labor, can potentially explain the above facts. Statistical analysis suggests …
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China is well-placed to avoid the so-called “middle-income trap” and to continue to converge towards the more advanced economies, even though growth is likely to slow from near double-digit rates in the first decade of this millennium to around 7% at the 2020 horizon. However, in order to...
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