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Beraja, Martin; Zorzi, Nathan - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

How should the government respond to automation? We study this question in a heterogeneous agent model that takes … borrowing is limited. We first show that these frictions result in inefficient automation. Firms fail to internalize that … where the government can tax automation but lacks redistributive tools to fully overcome borrowing frictions. The …

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Robots and Workers : Evidence from the Netherlands

Acemoglu, Daron; Koster, Hans; Ozgen, Ceren - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

-level robot adoption. Overall, our results highlight the uneven effects of automation on the workforce …

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Distorted Innovation : Does the Market Get the Direction of Technology Right?

Acemoglu, Daron - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

automation, health care, and energy, and correcting these distortions could have sizable welfare benefits …

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Measuring the Commercial Potential of Science

Masclans, Roger; Hasan, Sharique; Cohen, Wesley M. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

This paper uses a large language model to develop an ex-ante measure of the commercial potential of scientific findings. In addition to validating the measure against the typical holdout sample, we validate it externally against 1.) the progression of scientific findings through a major...

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Structural Development Accounting

Gancia, Gino A; Müller, Andreas; Zilibotti, Fabrizio - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

We construct and estimate a unified model combining three of the main sources of cross-country income disparities: differences in factor endowments, barriers to technology adoption and the inappropriateness of frontier technologies to local conditions. The key components are different types of...

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Artificial Intelligence and the Skill Premium

Bloom, David E.; Prettner, Klaus; Saadaoui, Jamel; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

types of capital: traditional physical capital (machines, assembly lines), industrial robots, and AI. Following the … literature, we assume that industrial robots predominantly substitute for low-skill workers, whereas AI mainly helps to perform …

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Technical Progress and Early Retirement

Ahituv, Avner; Zeira, Joseph - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2000

This Paper claims that technical progress induces early retirement of older workers. It supports this claim both theoretically and empirically. We present a model where part of human capital is technology-specific, so that technical progress erodes some existing human capital. This affects...

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Browsers Don't Lie? Gender Differences in the Effects of the Indian COVID-19 Lockdown on Digital Activity and Time Use

Miller, Amalia R.; Ramdas, Kamalini; Sungu, Alp - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

We measure the impact of the initial Indian national COVID-19 lockdown on digital activity using browser histories of 1,094 individuals, spanning over 31.5 million website visits on computers and mobile devices. Reflecting the predicted increase in the value of online activity, both men and...

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Restructuring Production and Work

Lindbeck, Assar; Snower, Dennis J. - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1995

The paper analyses the contemporary organizational restructuring of production and work and derives some salient implications for the labour market. The analysis focuses on the switch from occupational specialization at 'Tayloristic' organizations to multi-tasking at 'holistic' organizations....

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The Division of Labour Within Firms

Lindbeck, Assar; Snower, Dennis J. - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1998

The paper examines the determinants of the division of labour within firms. It provides an explanation of the pervasive change in work organization away from the traditional functional departments and towards multi-tasking and job rotation. Whereas the existing literature on the division of...

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