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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...

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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 …

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Learning by doing in markets, firms, and countries

Lamoreaux, Naomi R. (ed.); Raff, Daniel M. G. (contributor); … - 1999

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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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...

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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...

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Of Time and Space : Technological Spillovers among Patents and Unpatented Innovations during Early U.S. Industrialization

Khan, B. Zorina - 2014

The paper explores the role of institutional mechanisms in generating technological knowledge spillovers. The estimation is over panel datasets of patent grants, and unpatented innovations that were submitted for prizes at the annual industrial fairs of the American Institute of New York, during...

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