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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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The Rise of Age-Friendly Jobs
Acemoglu, Daron; Mühlbach, Nicolaj Søndergaard; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
In 1990, one in five U.S. workers were aged over 50 years whereas today it is one in three. One possible explanation for this is that occupations have become more accommodating to the preferences of older workers. We explore this by constructing an "age-friendliness" index for occupations. We...
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The Simple Macroeconomics of AI
Acemoglu, Daron - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
This paper evaluates claims about large macroeconomic implications of new advances in AI. It starts from a task-based model of AI's effects, working through automation and task complementarities. So long as AI's microeconomic effects are driven by cost savings/productivity improvements at the...
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Credit market imperfections and persistent unemployment
Acemoglu, Daron - In: European economic review : EER 45 (2001) 4/6, pp. 665-679
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Credit Market Imperfections and Persistent Unemployment
Acemoglu, Daron - 2000
This paper develops the thesis that credit market frictions may be an important contributor to high unemployment in … market imperfections, so unemployment rises and remains high for an extended period. The data show that there has not been … cause of the increase in European unemployment, they may have played some role in limiting European employment growth …
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Changes in Unemployment and Wage Inequality : An Alternative Theory and Some Evidence
Acemoglu, Daron - 1998
unemployment rates for both groups. The paper provides some evidence that there has been a change in the composition of jobs in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012472153
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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....
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