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of considering migration patterns of college graduates when estimating the social return on public investment in higher …
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productivity growth as well as local exposures to global shocks--technology, trade, immigration, and population aging--predict the …
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municipalities from 2010-2015 on the internal migration of natives. Using Korean survey data we are able to distinguish between … generating little net native migration, changed the composition of natives in Korean municipalities …
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We examine the impact of Artificial Intelligence (AI) on productivity in the context of taxi drivers. The AI we study … improves drivers' productivity by shortening the cruising time, and such gain is accrued only to low-skilled drivers, narrowing … the productivity gap between high- and low-skilled drivers by 14%. The result indicates that AI's impact on human labor is …
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This paper examines the impact of unionization on profit- ability, growth and productivity using time series data on … analysis is that information about union wage and productivity effects is not sufficient to permit prediction of the sign (or … negative union effects on profitability, but growth, productivity and the capital-labor ratio appear to be little affected by …
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Employment growth is strongly predicted by smaller average establishment size, both across cities and across industries within cities, but there is little consensus on why this relationship exists. Traditional economic explanations emphasize factors that reduce entry costs or raise...
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Industries in which private nonprofit production is present and significant, such as health care and education, account for more than one-fifth of US economic activity. This paper argues that previous analysis of nonprofits has not separated profit-deviating preferences from the state-defined...
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new enterprises. After these reforms, however, it has taken a number of years before output and productivity have begun to … result, it takes time before the benefits of reform show up in increases in measured output and productivity. To establish a … that it takes 5-7 years until measured output and productivity begin to grow rapidly following reform. This finding …
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utilization and productivity growth within an integrated structural model, and to assess their interactions empirically using … annual two-digit U.S. manufacturing data. Attention is focused on error biases in measuring productivity using traditional … equal, the error biases in standard productivity growth measures resulting from input fixity and scale economies are …
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Migration is a key mechanism through which local labor markets adjust to economic shocks. In this paper, we analyze the … migration response of American workers to two of the most important shocks that hit US manufacturing since the 1990s: Chinese … spillovers outside manufacturing, caused by robots but not by Chinese imports, can explain the different migration responses. We …
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