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Competing Engines of Growth : Innovation and Standardization

Acemoglu, Daron; Gancia, Gino Alessandro; Zilibotti, … - 2014

We study a dynamic general equilibrium model where innovation takes the form of the introduction new goods, whose … production requires skilled workers. Innovation is followed by a costly process of standardization, whereby these new goods are … substitution between goods and other parameters. Third, we show that the interplay between innovation and standardization may lead …

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Equalizing Superstars : The Internet and the Democratization of Education

Acemoglu, Daron - 2014

Educational resources distributed via the Internet are rapidly proliferating. One prominent concern associated with these potentially transformative developments is that, as many of the leading technologies of the last several decades have been, these new sweeping technological changes will be...

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The race between machine and man : implications of technology for growth, factor shares and employment

Acemoglu, Daron; Restrepo, Pascual - 2016

We examine the concerns that new technologies will render labor redundant in a framework in which tasks previously performed by labor can be automated and new versions of existing tasks, in which labor has a comparative advantage, can be created. In a static version where capital is fixed and...

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Secular stagnation? : the effect of aging on economic growth in the age of automation

Acemoglu, Daron; Restrepo, Pascual - 2017

Several recent theories emphasize the negative effects of an aging population on economic growth, either because of the lower labor force participation and productivity of older workers or because aging will create an excess of savings over desired investment, leading to secular stagnation. We...

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Robots and jobs : evidence from U.S. labor markets

Acemoglu, Daron; Restrepo, Pascual - 2017

As robots and other computer-assisted technologies take over tasks previously performed by labor, there is increasing concern about the future of jobs and wages. We analyze the effect of the increase in industrial robot usage between 1990 and 2007 on US local labor markets. Using a model in...

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Low-skill and high-skill automation

Acemoglu, Daron; Restrepo, Pascual - 2017

We present a task-based model in which high- and low-skill workers compete against machines in the production of tasks. Low-skill (high-skill) automation corresponds to tasks performed by low-skill (high-skill) labor being taken over by capital. Automation displaces the type of labor it directly...

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Artificial intelligence, automation and work

Acemoglu, Daron; Restrepo, Pascual - 2017 - Rev: Jan 4, 2018

We summarize a framework for the study of the implications of automation and AI on the demand for labor, wages, and employment. Our task-based framework emphasizes the displacement effect that automation creates as machines and AI replace labor in tasks that it used to perform. This displacement...

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Modeling automation

Acemoglu, Daron; Restrepo, Pascual - 2018

This paper points out that modeling automation as factor-augmenting technological change has several unappealing implications. Instead, modeling it as the process of machines replacing tasks previously performed by labor is both descriptively realistic and leads to distinct and empirically...

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Demographics and automation

Acemoglu, Daron; Restrepo, Pascual - 2018

We argue theoretically and document empirically that aging leads to greater (industrial) automation, and in particular, to more intensive use and development of robots. Using US data, we document that robots substitute for middle-aged workers (those between the ages of (36 and 55). We then show...

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Minimum Wages and On-the-Job Training

Acemoglu, Daron; Pischke, Jörn-Steffen - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2002

Becker's theory of human capital predicts that minimum wages should reduce training investments for affected workers because they prevent these workers from taking wage cuts necessary to finance training. In contrast, in noncompetitive labor markets, minimum wages tend to increase training of...

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