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Robots at Work
Graetz, Georg; Michaels, Guy - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 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 …
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The Macroeconomic Role of Unemployment Compensation
Blumkin, Tomer; Hadar, Yossi; Yashiv, Eran - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2009
enhancing the assignment of workers to jobs in the face of firm productivity heterogeneity and skill-biased technological change …. It shows that in order to do so policy needs to be a function of the properties of the firm's productivity distribution … emerging from the analysis is that the degree of firm productivity heterogeneity, in terms of skewness and variance, matters …
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Import Competition from and Outsourcing to China: A Curse or Blessing for Firms?
Mion, Giordano; Zhu, Linke - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2010
We use Belgian manufacturing firm-level data over the period 1996- 2007 to analyze the impact of imports from different origins on firm growth, exit, and skill upgrading. For this purpose we use both industry-level and firm-level imports by country of origin and distinguish between firm-level...
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Service Trade and Occupational Tasks: An Empirical Investigation
Ariu, Andrea; Mion, Giordano - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2011
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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The Division of Labor, Coordination, and the Demand for Information Processing
Michaels, Guy - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2007
Since Adam Smith's time, the division of labor in production has increased significantly, while information processing has become an important part of work. This paper examines whether the need to coordinate an increasingly complex division of labor has raised the demand for clerical office...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005670475
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Productivity As If Space Mattered: An Application to Factor Markets Across China
Cheng, Wenya; Morrow, John; Tacharoen, Kitjawat - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2012
markets explain both productivity differences and firm density. Estimating structural model parameters is simple and relies on … model, we find that labor markets which provide cost advantages explain substantial differences in firm productivity …
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Sexism at work
Erikssoon, Björn; Karlsson, Tobias; Leunig, Tim; … - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2012
the gender wage gap as a reflection of men's greater strength and correspondingly higher productivity. This paper … fully explained by differences in experience and other productivity-related characteristics. Second, conditioning on those …
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Working or shirking?
Bloom, Nicholas; Liang, James; Roberts, John; Ying, … - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2012
Over 10% of US employees now regularly work from home (WFH), but there is widespread skepticism over its impact highlighted by phrases like "shirking from home". We report the results of a WFH experiment at Ctrip, a 13,000 employee NASDAQ listed Chinese multinational. Call center employees who...
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Heterogeneous Firms and Trade
Melitz, Marc J.; Redding, Stephen J. - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2012
markets. This approach explains a variety of features exhibited in disaggregated trade data, including the higher productivity … industry and firm productivity. …
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Austerity: Growth Costs and Post-Election Plans
Reenen, John Van - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2015
The austerity programme of the coalition government knocked at least one percent per year off growth in the first two years of this Parliament. In retrospect, this looks like a mistake and the slower pace of austerity in 2012 to 2013 and thereafter was welcome (as was the setting up of the...
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