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The Diffusion of Technological Progress in ICT

Elstner, Steffen; Grimme, Christian; Kecht, Valentin; … - 2021

productivity in the rest of the economy. To separate exogenous gains in ICT from other technological progress, we use the relative …

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Structural Transformation of Occupation Employment

Duernecker, Georg; Herrendorf, Berthold - 2021

We use census data to show that structural transformation reflects a fundamental reallocation of labor from goods to services, instead of a relabelling that occurs when goods-producing firms outsource their in-house service production. The novelty of our approach is that it categorizes labor by...

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The Effect of Recent Technological Change on US Immigration Policy

Brey, Björn - 2021

Did recent technological change, in the form of automation, affect immigration policy in the United States? I argue that as automation shifted employment from routine to manual occupations at the bottom end of the skill distribution, it increased competition between natives and immigrants,...

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Explaining the Decline in the US Labor Share : Taxation and Automation

Heer, Burkhard; Irmen, Andreas; Süssmuth, Bernd - 2022

This study provides evidence for the US that the secular decline in the labor share is not only explained by technical change or globalization, but also by the dynamics of factor taxation, automation capital (robots), and population growth. First, we empirically find indications of...

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What Happened to U.S. Business Dynamism?

Akcigit, Ufuk - 2019

In the past several decades, the U.S. economy has witnessed a number of striking trends that indicate a rising market concentration and a slowdown in business dynamism. In this paper, we make an attempt to understand potential common forces behind these empirical regularities through the lens of...

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Techies and Firm Level Productivity

Harrigan, James; Reshef, Ariell; Toubal, Farid - 2023

We study the impact of techies—engineers and other technically trained workers—on firm-level productivity. We first …-neutral productivity in both manufacturing and non-manufacturing industries. We find that techies raise firm-level productivity, and this … of techies on productivity operates mostly through ICT and other techies, not R&D workers. Engineers have a greater …

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von Ehrlich, Maximilian; Seidel, Tobias - 2012

economic activity. If firms are more similar with respect to their total factor productivity, each company faces a lower …

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Does Electricity Drive Structural Transformation? Evidence from the United States

Gaggl, Paul - 2019

Electricity is a general purpose technology and the catalyst for the second industrial revolution. Developing countries are currently making huge investments in electrification, with a view to achieving structural change. What does history say about its impact on the structure of employment? We...

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Shocks, Frictions, and Inequality in US Business Cycles

Bayer, Christian - 2020

How much does inequality matter for the business cycle and vice versa? Using a Bayesian likelihood approach, we estimate a heterogeneous-agent New-Keynesian (HANK) model with incomplete markets and portfolio choice between liquid and illiquid assets. The model enlarges the set of shocks and...

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Will Destination-Based Taxes Be Fully Exploited When Available? An Application to the U.S. Commodity Tax System

Agrawal, David R. - 2019

-level policies that increase tax avoidance opportunities, the results of the empirical model broadly confirm our theory …

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