as Germany? We argue that differences in employment protection can account for much of the gap. We develop a model where … in Germany …

the adjustment of manufacturing employment and hours in West Germany, France and Belgium, three countries with strong job … regulations that occurred in Germany, France and Belgium during the 1980s affected employers' adjustment to changes in output …

. Employing longitudinal data from Germany, we exploit within-individual changes in robot exposure and document that a one …

of inquiry in this market setting that are central to the broader digitization research agenda: 1) How will the … digitization of this market influence the distribution of economic activity (geographic distribution of work, income distribution … acquisition, machine-aided recommendations)?; 3) How will the digitization of this market affect social welfare (increased …

globalization. Globalization leads to better matches for all southern workers but only for the best northern workers. As a result …, we show that globalization increases wage inequality in the South but not necessarily in the North. We also study how … globalization affects the size distribution of firms and the patterns of consumption and trade in the global economy …

This paper directs attention at the globalization of knowledge and knowledge creation as the fundamental global driver … of economic outcomes in today's information economy. It documents the globalization of knowledge and spread of scientific … the key component in productivity and growth, its spread and creation is the one ring of globalization that rules the more …