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Tasks At Work : Comparative Advantage, Technology and Labor Demand
Acemoglu, Daron; Kong, Fredric; Restrepo, Pascual - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
This chapter reviews recent advances in the task model and shows how this framework can be put to work to understand the major labor market trends of the last several decades. Production in each industry necessitates the completion of a range of tasks, which can be allocated to workers of...
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Information Technology, Workplace Organization and the Demand for Skilled Labor : Firm-Level Evidence
Bresnahan, Timothy F. - 1999
Recently, the relative demand for skilled labor has increased dramatically. We investigate one of the causes, skill-biased technical change. Advances in information technology (IT) are among the most powerful forces bearing on the economy. Employers who use IT often make complementary...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471658
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Upstairs, Downstairs : Computer-Skill Complementarity and Computer-Labor Substitution on Two Floors of a Large Bank
Autor, David H. - 2000
We describe how a single technological innovation, the introduction of image processing of checks, led to distinctly …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012470847
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International differences in the business practices and productivity of firms
Freeman, Richard B. (ed.); Shaw, Kathryn (contributor) - 2009
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003774896
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Learning by doing in markets, firms, and countries
Lamoreaux, Naomi R. (ed.); Raff, Daniel M. G. (contributor);  … - 1999
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10000663281
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The U.S. Patent System in Transition : Policy Innovation and the Innovation Process
Jaffe, Adam B. - 1999
relating to patenting, robust conclusions regarding the empirical consequences for technological innovation of changes in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471503
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Innovation, Growth and Structural Change in American Agriculture
Alston, Julian M. - 2020
U.S. agriculture was transformed during the 20th century by waves of innovation with mechanical, biological, chemical … innovation will be required to preserve past productivity gains in the face of climate change, coevolving pests and diseases, and … changing technological regulations--let alone increase productivity. Great potential exists for innovation in crop and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012481789
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Exploring Links Between Innovation and Diffusion : Adoption of NOx Control Technologies at U.S. Coal-Fired Power Plants
Popp, David - 2006
While many studies have looked at innovation and adoption of technologies separately, the two processes are linked …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012466550
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Institutions and Technological Innovation During the Early Economic Growth : Evidence from the Great Inventors of the United States, 1790-1930
Khan, B. Zorina - 2004
Employing a sample of renowned U.S. inventors that combines biographical detail with information on the patents they received over their careers, we highlight the impact of early U.S. patent institutions in providing broad access to economic opportunity and in encouraging trade in new...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012467721
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Technological Innovations and Endogenous Changes in U.S. Legal Institutions, 1790-1920
Khan, B. Zorina - 2004
Recent scholarship highlights the importance of institutions to the processes of economic growth, but the precise nature of their relationship bears further examination. This paper considers how the evolution of legal institutions has contributed to, and in turn been affected by, major...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012468347