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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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This paper evaluates how different lengths of entry regulation impact market structure and market performance using a dynamic structural model. We formulate an oligopoly model in the tradition of Ericson and Pakes (1995) and allow entry costs to vary over time. Firms have the opportunity to...
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the presence of such products on innovation and consumer welfare. For a given number of buyers, platform liability … increases innovation by reducing the competitive pressure faced by innovative products. However, there can be a misalignment of … intended effect on innovation. Platform liability tends to increase (decrease) innovation and consumer welfare when the …
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This paper analyzes patent pools and their effects on innovation incentives. It is shown that the pro …-competitive effects of patent pools for complementary patents naturally extend for dynamic innovation incentives. However, this simple … patents reduce social welfare as they charge higher licensing fees and chill subsequent innovation incentives. …
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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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