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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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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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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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In a Cournot oligopoly set up with constant marginal cost and linear demand, innovation is rewarding. In this paper we … work with a Cournot oligopoly framework with increasing marginal cost and linear demand and show that innovation may not be … interaction we attempt to capture and explain is the one of technology with the possibility of innovation via the intensity of …
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We investigate the relationship between the presence of migrant inventors and the dynamics of innovation in the …
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that helps low-skilled labor is conducive for controlling inequality and raising wage. Skilled talent-led innovation could … embedded in talented immigrants targeted for innovation. Empirical verification using a VAR regression model in the context of … the USA confirms the conjectures, and the empirical results substantiates our policy-guided hypothesis that skilled …
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Innovation is part idea generation and part development. We build a model of “innovating-bydoing,” whereby ideas come … to practitioners. Successful innovation requires that practitioners’ideas be developed through costly effort. Our model … program onmedical equipment innovation. Our model’s structure allows us to infer the Medicare program’saggregate effects. We …
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supply on automation innovation by exploiting an immigrant placement policy in Germany during the 1990s and 2000s. Difference …-in-differences estimates indicate that one additional worker per 1,000 manual and unskilled workers reduces automation innovation by 0 …-skilled workers. Labor market tightness and external demand are plausible mechanisms for the labor-innovation nexus …
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To analyze the impact of labor scarcity on technology adoption and innovation, this study uses the differential spread …, had a positive and significant shortrun effect on technology adoption and innovation in agriculture but a negative and …
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STEM-skill intensive and are associated with innovation, as well as with technology adoption, management, and diffusion …
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