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Graetz, Georg; Michaels, Guy - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015

panel of industries in 17 countries from 1993-2007. We find that industrial robots increased both labor productivity and ….37 percentage points. We also find that robots increased both wages and total factor productivity. While robots had no significant …Despite ubiquitous discussions of robots’ potential impact, there is almost no systematic empirical evidence on their …

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Changes in the Functional Structure of Firms and the Demand for Skill

Maurin, Eric; Thesmar, David - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003

We describe and analyse the changes in the occupational structure of French manufacturing firms between 1984 and 1995. Firms employ a much greater proportions of engineers and researchers working on the design and marketing of new products and a much lower proportion of high-skilled experts...

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Factor Saving Innovation

Boldrin, Michele; Levine, David - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002

It has been argued that concave models exhibit less ‘endogeneity of growth’ than models with increasing returns to scale. Here we study a simple model of factor saving technological improvement in a concave framework. Capital can be used either to reproduce itself, or, at some additional...

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Outsourcing and Technological Innovations: A Firm-Level Analysis

Bartel, Ann P; Lach, Saul; Sicherman, Nachum - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008

This paper presents a dynamic model that analyzes how firms’ expectations with regards to technological change influence the demand for outsourcing. We show that outsourcing becomes more beneficial to the firm when technology is changing rapidly. As the pace of innovations in production...

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Service Trade and Occupational Tasks: An Empirical Investigation

Ariu, Andrea; Mion, Giordano - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012

Using micro data for Belgium we investigate the relationship between occupational tasks changes and the rise of service trade. We focus the analysis on the extensive margin and look at the heterogeneous proliferation of firms involved in exports and imports of services across sectors...

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Job Tenure, Wages and Technology: A Reassessment Using Matched Worker-Firm Panel Data

Givord, Pauline; Maurin, Eric - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003

This Paper presents new estimates of the impact of job tenure on wages using a new French matched worker-firm dataset. We develop an identification strategy that relies on one specific feature of the French labour laws. They stipulate that firms, when firing workers, must include as one of their...

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Outsourcing and Technological Change

Bartel, Ann P; Lach, Saul; Sicherman, Nachum - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005

In this paper we argue that an important source of the recent increase in outsourcing is the computer and information technology revolution, characterized by increased rates of technological change. Our model shows that an increase in the pace of technological change increases outsourcing...

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When Does Labor Scarcity Encourage Innovation?

Acemoglu, Daron - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009

This paper studies the conditions under which the scarcity of a factor (in particular, labor) encourages technological progress and technology adoption. In standard endogenous growth models, which feature a strong scale effect, an increase in the supply of labor encourages technological...

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Practice Makes Perfect: On Professional Standards

Sällström, Susanna - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007

Professional standards vary across professions and also change over time. One profession which has remained perfectionist is classical music, where the amount of practising is striking compared with other professions. Practising is a matter of increasing the reliability of ones skills rather...

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It's Not What You Make, It's How You Use IT: Measuring the Welfare Benefits of the IT Revolution Across Countries

Bayoumi, Tamim; Haacker, Markus - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002

This Paper analyses the welfare benefits from falling relative prices of IT (Information Technology) goods across a wide range of countries. Using two separate methodologies and datasets, we find that welfare benefits mainly accrue to users of IT, not their producers, because of falling relative...

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