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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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a sample of advanced economies. Institutions explain a substantial proportion of cross-country variation in automation … vulnerable to holdup. This suggests that automation is used by producers as a tool to thwart rent appropriation by labor. …
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Prettner (2019) studies the implications of automation for economic growth and the labor share in a variant of the … Solow-Swan model. The aggregate production function allows for two types of capital, traditional and automation capital …. Traditional capital and labor are imperfect substitutes whereas automation capital and labor are perfect substitutes. In this …
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Since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution, technological change has led to the automation of existing tasks and … with productivity growth. I provide evidence suggesting, however, that in recent decades automation has outpaced the …
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processes? The present paper addresses this question in a new macroeconomic model of automation where competitive firms perform … and substitute for labor in the performance of tasks. Automation is labor-augmenting in the reduced-form aggregate … though the aggregate production function is Cobb-Douglas. Population aging due to a higher longevity reduces automation in …
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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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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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This paper examines the labor market implications of investment in automation over the life cycle of ICT and robot … these automation technologies and identify the phases of acceleration and deceleration in investment. We then examine how … exposure to these automation technologies affects employment and wages across these different phases of their life cycle. We …
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How exposed is the labour market to ever-advancing AI capabilities, to what extent does this substitute human labour, and how will it affect inequality? We address these questions in a simulation of 711 US occupations classified by the importance and level of cognitive skills. We base our...
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