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Offshoring and Directed Technical Change
Acemoglu, Daron - 2012
To study the short-run and long-run implications on wage inequality, we introduce directed technical change into a Ricardian model of offshoring. A unique final good is produced by combining a skilled and an unskilled product, each produced from a continuum of intermediates (tasks). Some of...
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Robots and Workers : Evidence from the Netherlands
Acemoglu, Daron; Koster, Hans; Ozgen, Ceren - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
We estimate the effects of robot adoption on firm-level and worker-level outcomes in the Netherlands using a large employer-employee panel dataset spanning 2009-2020. Our firm-level results confirm previous findings, with positive effects on value added and hours worked for robot-adopting firms...
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Technology and Labor Displacement : Evidence from Linking Patents with Worker-Level Data
Kogan, Leonid; Papanikolaou, Dimitris; Schmidt, Lawrence; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
We develop measures of labor-saving and labor-augmenting technology exposure using textual analysis of patents and job tasks. Using US administrative data, we show that both measures negatively predict earnings growth of individual incumbent workers. While labor-saving technologies predict...
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Techies and Firm Level Productivity
Harrigan, James; Reshef, Ariell; Toubal, Farid - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
We study the impact of techies--engineers and other technically trained workers--on firm-level productivity. We first report new facts on the role of techies in the firm by using French administrative data and unique surveys. Techies are STEM-skill intensive and are associated with innovation,...
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Foreign Technology Adoption as a Flying Propeller
Hu, Yunfang; Kunieda, Takuma; Nishimura, Kazuo; Wang, Ping - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
We construct a dynamic general equilibrium model of foreign direct investment (FDI) and foreign technology adoption …. Growth accounting exercises show that total factor productivity, FDI conversion efficacy, and foreign technology spillover …
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Implications of Skill-Biased Technological Change : International Evidence
Berman, Eli - 1997
Demand for less skilled workers decreased dramatically in the US and in other developed countries over the past two decades. We argue that pervasive skill-biased technological change rather than increased trade with the developing world is the principal culprit. The pervasiveness of this...
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Optimal Resource Extraction Contracts Under Threat of Expropriation
Engel, Eduardo - 2008
The government contracts with a foreign firm to extract a natural resource that requires an upfront investment and … which faces price uncertainty. In states where profits are high, there is a likelihood of expropriation, which generates a … with high probability of expropriation. The contract can be implemented via a competitive auction with reasonable …
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Distributional Disputes and Civil Conflict
Grossman, Herschel I. - 2003
Some polities are able to use constitutionally prescribed political processes to settle distributional disputes, whereas in other polities distributional disputes result in civil conflict. Theoretical analysis reveals that the following properties help to make it possible to design a...
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The Returns to Skills During the Pandemic : Experimental Evidence from Uganda
Alfonsi, Livia; Bassi, Vittorio; Rasul, Imran; Spadini, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
The Covid-19 pandemic represents one of the most significant labor market shocks to the world economy in recent times. We present evidence from a field experiment to understand whether and why skilled and unskilled workers were differentially impacted by the shock, in the context of a low-income...
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The Employment, Earnings, and Income of Less Skilled Workers Over the Business Cycle
Hoynes, Hilary - 1999
In this paper, I examine the effect of business cycles on the employment, earnings, and income of persons in different demographic groups. I classify individuals by sex, education, and race. The analysis uses data from the Current Population Survey's Outgoing Rotation Group file, covering the...
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