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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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Zukunft der Arbeit in Industrie 4.0
Botthof, Alfons (ed.); Hartmann, Ernst Andreas (ed.) - 2015
Das Zukunftsprojekt "Industrie 4.0", das ein zentrales Element der Hightech-Strategie der Bundesregierung darstellt, zielt auf die Informatisierung der klassischen Industrien, wie z. B. der industriellen Produktion. Auf dem Weg zum Internet der Dinge soll durch die Verschmelzung der virtuellen...
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The Executive's How-To Guide to Automation : Mastering AI and Algorithm-Driven Business
Danner, George E. - 2019
that algorithm design is the exclusive purview of computer scientists and experienced programmers. This book aims to dispel … automation in business means human labor will no longer be needed, the author argues that organizations will re-purpose humans … into different roles under the banner of automation, not simply get rid of them. He also identifies parts of business that …
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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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Welfare policy in the presence of unionised labour and internationally mobile firms
Rocha-Akis, Silvia; Schöb, Ronnie - 2010
In oligopolistic industries, increased cost saving opportunities via offshoring have a moderating effect on trade unions. In order to discourage mobile firms from leaving the country, unions accept lower sector wages. In effect, the negotiated wage becomes independent of workers' bargaining...
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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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Dynamic competition with network externalities : why history matters
Hałaburda, Hanna; Jullien, Bruno; Yehezkel, Yaron - 2016 - September 2013, revised March 2016
We consider dynamic competition among platforms in a market with network externalities. A platform that dominated the market in the previous period becomes "focal" in the current period, in that agents play the equilibrium in which they adopt the focal platform whenever such equilibrium exists....
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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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