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The dynamics of automation adoption : firm-level heterogeneity and aggregate employment effects

Bisio, Laura; Cuzzola, Angelo; Grazzi, Marco; … - 2023

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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Computerizing Industries and Routinizing Jobs : Explaining Trends in Aggregate Productivity

Aum, Sangmin - 2018

Aggregate productivity growth in the U.S. has slowed down since the 2000s. We quantify the importance of differential productivity growth across occupations and across industries, and the rise of computers since the 1980s, for the productivity slowdown. Complementarity across occupations and...

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Automation, firm employment and skill upgrading : firm-level evidence from China

Qin, Xiaozhen; Xu, Weipan; Chen, Haohui; Zhong, Jiawei; … - In: Industry and innovation 29 (2022) 9, pp. 1075-1107

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Globotics and Development : When Manufacturing is Jobless and Services are Tradable

Baldwin, Richard; Forslid, Rikard - 2022

Globalization and robotics (globotics) are transforming the world economy at an explosive pace. While much of the literature has focused on rich nations, the changes are quite likely to affect developing nations in important ways. The premise of the paper - which should be regarded as a...

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The dynamics of automation adoption : firm-level heterogeneity and aggregate employment effects

Bisio, Laura; Cuzzola, Angelo; Grazzi, Marco; … - 2023

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-in-differences design … exploiting import lumpiness in product categories linked to automation and AI technologies. We find a positive average adoption …

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Dynamic entry and exit linkages in the Brazilian manufacturing industry : an econometric investigation

Resende, Marcelo; Ribeiro, Eduardo Pontual; Zeidan, … - 2013

The paper investigates dynamic linkages between entry and exit rates in Brazilian manufacturing in the context of 231 (4-digits) industries during the 1996-2005 period. The empirical analysis focuses on the estimation of a dynamic panel data for entry and exit rates and controls for the business...

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Inside the virtuous cycle between productivity, profitability, investment and corporate growth : an anatomy of China industrialization

Yu, Xiaodan; Dosi, Giovanni; Grazzi, Marco; Lei, Jiasu - 2015

This article explores the dynamics of market selection by investigating of the relationships linking productivity, profitability, investment and growth, based on China's manufacturing firm-level dataset over the period 1998 - 2007. First, we find that productivity variations, rather than...

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Productivity, price- and wage-markups : an empirical analysis of the Dutch manufacturing industry

Amoroso, Sara; Melenberg, Bertrand; Plasmans, Joseph E. J. - 2015

This paper examines the interaction between productivity growth, firms’ monopolistic market power, and workers’ wage bargaining power. Our study contributes to several strands of literatures. First, we examine a monopolistic framework which accounts for wage bargaining. In addition to the...

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Growing productivity without growing wages : the micro-level anatomy of the aggregate labor share decline

Kehrig, Matthias; Vincent, Nicolas - 2017 - First version: November 2015, this version: March 29, 2017

The aggregate labor share in U.S. manufacturing declined dramatically over the last three decades: Since the mid-1980's, the compensation for labor declined from 67% to 47% of value added which is unseen in any other sector of the U.S. economy. The labor share of the typical U.S. manufacturing...

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Distant but close in sight : firm-level evidence on French-German productivity gaps in manufacturing

Grebel, Thomas; Napoletano, Mauro; Nesta, Lionel - 2020

We study the productivity level distributions of manufacturing firms in France and Germany, and how these distributions evolved across the Great Recession. We show the presence of a systematic productivity advantage of German firms over French ones in the decade 2003-2013, but the gap has...

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