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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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Debates about the future of work frequently reference past instances of transformative innovation to preface analysis … of how automation and artificial intelligence could reshape society and the economy. However, technological shifts in … overview of the current debates around the potential effects of impending labor-replacing innovation. We then summarize …
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explain them. We then describe a theoretical framework of endogenous markups, innovation, and competition that can potentially …
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may even reduce welfare. The reason is that it crowds out proprietary innovation which on net may reduce total innovation … in the long run. These effects would be reinforced if philanthropical innovation diverted people from other productive …
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We study how technology adoption and changes in global value chain (GVC) integration jointly affect labor shares and business function specialization in a sample of 14 manufacturing industries in 14 European countries in 1999-2011. Our main contribution is to highlight the indirect effect of...
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the wage distribution. These results are consistent with the view that AI has contributed to the automation of jobs and to …
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We investigate the impact of investment in automation-related goods on adopting and non-adopting firms in the Italian … of Italian importing firms and estimate the effects on adopters' outcomes within a difference-indifferences design … exploiting import lumpiness in product categories linked to automation and AI technologies. We find a positive average adoption …
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Job training is widely regarded as crucial for protecting workers from automation, yet there is a lack of empirical … countries, we construct an individual-level measure of automation risk based on tasks performed at work. Our analysis reveals … substantial within-occupation variation in automation risk, overlooked by existing occupation-level measures. To assess whether …
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The diffusion of automation technology raises questions about the future of work, leading to calls for policy … automation technology, where a few multinational enterprises (MNEs) dominate sales. To evaluate how these MNEs respond to policy …
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