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Karanassou, Marika; Snower, Dennis J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2002

labor market ensures that the long-run unemployment rate is independent of the size of the capital stock, productivity, and … productivity. …

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Robots at Work

Graetz, Georg; Michaels, Guy - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 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 Big Trade-Off in the World of Labor

Zimmermann, Klaus F. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015

The world is changing rapidly. This paper describes key shifts and it discusses their likely impacts on employment-related aspects. Labor market pressures are felt around the globe, and robots and automation increasingly become reality. However, there will be no "end of work". Rather, it is that...

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An Analysis of Hospital Efficiency and Productivity Growth Using the Luenberger Productivity Indicator

Barros, Carlos Pestana; Menezes, António Gomes de; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

We analyze the efficiency and productivity growth of a representative sample of Portuguese hospitals from 1997 to 2004 …, using an innovative approach by employing the directional distance function and the Luenberger productivity indicator. The … productivity indicator that is decomposed into the usual constituents of productivity growth: technological change and efficiency …

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The Adoption and Diffusion of Organizational Innovation: Evidence for the U.S. Economy

Lynch, Lisa M. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

Using a unique longitudinal representative survey of both manufacturing and nonmanufacturing businesses in the United States during the 1990’s, I examine the incidence and intensity of organizational innovation and the factors associated with investments in organizational innovation. Past...

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Nur noch Roboter und Selbstausbeutung? Über die Herausforderungen und Chancen der neuen Welt der Arbeit

Zimmermann, Klaus F. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015

Unsere (Arbeits-)Welt scheint sich mit zunehmender Geschwindigkeit zu verändern. Der vorliegende Beitrag beschreibt zentrale Aspekte dieser Entwicklung und diskutiert ihre voraussichtlichen Auswirkungen auf Arbeit und Beschäftigung. Der Wandel ist weltweit spürbar und Roboter und Maschinen...

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The Nature of Occupational Unemployment Rates in the United States: Hysteresis or Structural?

Candelon, Bertrand; Dupuy, Arnaud; Gil-Alana, Luis A. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

This paper provides new evidence on the nature of occupational differences in unemployment dynamics, which is relevant for the debate between the structural or hysteresis hypotheses. We develop a procedure that permits us to test for the presence of a structural break at unknown date. Our...

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Structural Change in MENA Remittance Flows

Naufal, George S; Genc, Ismail H. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

After independence, the GCC countries relied heavily on foreign workers from fellow Arab countries. Thus, remittances flowed from GCC to other countries in MENA. In the 1980s-1990s labor source switched to South Asia; so did the flow of remittances. This paper examines the consequences of the...

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Minimum Wages and Employment: Reconsidering the Use of a Time-Series Approach as an Evaluation Tool

Lee, Wang-Sheng; Suardi, Sandy - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

The time-series approach used in the minimum wage literature essentially aims to estimate a treatment effect of increasing the minimum wage. In this paper, we employ a novel approach based on aggregate time-series data that allows us to determine if minimum wage changes have significant effects...

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Combining Micro and Macro Unemployment Duration Data

den Berg, Gerard J. van; van der Klaauw, Bas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2000

We combine micro and macro unemployment duration data to study the effects of the business cycle on the outflow from unemployment. We allow the cycle to affect individual exit probabilities of unemployed workers as well as the composition of the total inflow into unemployment. We estimate the...

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