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Evaluating Estimates of Materials Offshoring from U.S. Manufacturing
Feenstra, Robert C. - 2012
When materials offshoring is measured by estimating imported intermediate inputs, a common assumption used is that an … the 3-digit I-O industry level, there is a correlation of 0.68 between the offshoring shares made with and without the …
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Producer dynamics : new evidence from micro data
Dunne, Timothy (contributor);  … - 2009
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Import Competition and the Great U.S. Employment Sag of the 2000s
Acemoglu, Daron - 2014
Even before the Great Recession, U.S. employment growth was unimpressive. Between 2000 and 2007, the economy gave back … the considerable gains in employment rates it had achieved during the 1990s, with major contractions in manufacturing … employment being a prime contributor to the slump. The U.S. employment "sag" of the 2000s is widely recognized but poorly …
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Return of the Solow Paradox? IT, Productivity, and Employment in U.S. Manufacturing
Acemoglu, Daron - 2014
, when detectable, result from the even faster declines in employment …
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Designing Benefits for Platform Workers
Gruber, Jonathan - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Designing benefits for the growing platform workforce in the U.S. poses significant challenges. While platform workers need protection against unforeseen shocks, work that is often part time and spread across multiple platforms makes the traditional benefits model untenable. This paper reports...
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Do Higher-Priced Hospitals Deliver Higher-Quality Care?
Cooper, Zack; Doyle, Joseph J.; Graves, John A.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
We analyze whether receiving care from higher-priced hospitals leads to lower mortality. We overcome selection issues by using an instrumental variable approach which exploits that ambulance companies are quasi-randomly assigned to transport patients and have strong preferences for certain...
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Estimating the Financial Impact of Gene Therapy in the U.S.
Wong, Chi Heem; Li, Dexin; Wang, Nina; Gruber, Jonathan; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
We empirically assess the potential financial impact of future gene therapies on the US economy. After identifying 109 late-stage gene therapy clinical trials currently underway, we estimate the number of new and existing patients with corresponding diseases to be treated by these gene...
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Tasks, Automation, and the Rise in US Wage Inequality
Acemoglu, Daron; Restrepo, Pascual - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
employment opportunities for which they have comparative advantage. This framework yields a simple equation linking wage changes … offshoring) rather than those of rising market power, markups or deunionization, which themselves do not appear to play a major …
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Eclipse of Rent-Sharing : The Effects of Managers' Business Education on Wages and the Labor Share in the US and Denmark
Acemoglu, Daron; He, Alex Xi; Le Maire, Daniel - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
not on differential trends and do not enjoy higher output, investment, or employment growth thereafter. Using manager …
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AI and Jobs : Evidence from Online Vacancies
Acemoglu, Daron; Autor, David H.; Hazell, Jonathon; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022 - Revised February 2022
as they expand AI hiring. However, we find no discernible relationship between AI exposure and employment or wage growth …
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