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Cost-benefit analysis for green demonstrators : application to the container glass industry in France
Sadighi, Maryam; Ponssard, Jean-Pierre; Sanin, María … - 2024
Adopting disruptive technologies for decarbonizing hard-to-abate industrial sectors requires experimentation through demonstration (pilot) projects. However, from an economic perspective, the potential long-term benefits and the difficulties in designing relevant public policies are not...
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Automation and employment over the technology life cycle : evidence from European regions
Jaccoud, Florencia; Petit, Fabien; Ciarli, Tommaso; … - 2024
This paper examines the labor market implications of investment in automation over the life cycle of ICT and robot …
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The greener, the higher : labor demand of automotive firms during the green transformation
Fackler, Thomas; Falck, Oliver; Goldbeck, Moritz; Hans, … - 2024
We investigate differences in labor demand between German automotive firms specializing in green propulsion technology and those with a focus on combustion engines. To this end, we introduce a firm-level labor demand index based on the near-universe of online job postings and firms’ patent...
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Optimal taxation of robots
Thuemmel, Uwe - 2018
complement non-routine labor. I show that while it is optimal to distort robot adoption, robots may be either taxed or subsidized …. The robot tax exploits general-equilibrium effects to compress the wage distribution. Wage compression reduces income …-tax distortions of labor supply, thereby raising welfare. In the calibrated model, the optimal robot tax for the US is positive and …
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The impact of technological change on immigration and immigrants
Giesing, Yvonne - 2023
We study the effects of technological change on immigration flows as well as the labor market outcomes of migrants versus natives. We analyse and compare the effects of two different automation technologies: Industrial robots and artificial intelligence. We exploit data provided by the...
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Automation, global value chains and functional specialization
Fontagné, Lionel; Reshef, Ariell; Santoni, Gianluca; … - 2023
&D business functions. We do not find any direct effects of robot adoption; robotization affects labor only indirectly, by …
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Institutions, holdup and automation
Presidente, Giorgio - 2019
This paper documents a positive relationship between labor-friendly institutions and investment in industrial robots in a sample of advanced economies. Institutions explain a substantial proportion of cross-country variation in automation. The relationship between institutions and robots is...
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Technological and organizational change and the careers of workers
Battisti, Michele; Dustmann, Christian; Schönberg, Uta - 2022
This paper investigates the effects of technological and organizational change (T&O) on jobs and workers. We show that although T&O reduces firm demand for routine relative to abstract task-based jobs, affected workers do not face higher probability of non-employment or lower earnings growth...
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R&D and production behavior of asymmetric duopoly subject to knowledge spillovers
Plasmans, Joseph E. J. - 2000
We construct an asymmetri c duopolistic R&D and production behavior model subject to knowledge spillovers. This model is an extension to the symmetric model of d'Aspremont and Jacquemin (A&J (1988)) and aims to determine the cooperative and non-cooperative R&D strategies for two agents of...
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The past and future of work : how history can inform the age of automation
Schneider, Benjamin; Vipond, Hillary - 2023
Debates about the future of work frequently reference past instances of transformative innovation to preface analysis … overview of the current debates around the potential effects of impending labor-replacing innovation. We then summarize …
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