studies the impact of violent conflict on firms, exploiting this period of heightened violence in Mexico commonly referred to … controls for observable and unobservable differences across cities and firms as well as for product-specific business cycles … capacity utilization. Violence acts as a negative blue-collar labor supply shock, leading to significant increase in skill …

robots, and a productivity-enhancing reallocation of labor across firms, away from non-adopters, and toward adopters. …We study the implications of robot adoption at the level of individual firms using a rich panel data-set of Spanish … manufacturing firms over a 27-year period (1990-2016). We focus on three central questions: (1) Which firms adopt robots? (2) What …

In this paper, we develop a life cycle model in which health and longevity are threatened by infectious and chronic … diseases. The model captures that the susceptibility and severity of infectious diseases depend on the accumulated health … deficits (immunosenescence) and that the life history of infections affects the accumulation of chronic health deficits …

socioeconomic disparities in health outcomes. We also explore the individual-specific effects of Long Covid. We develop and … calibrate a health economic model based on principles of the biology of human aging that captures the interaction between … infections and chronic health deficits. Our analysis suggests that neglecting this interaction leads to a gross underestimation …

firms. We find that the relationship between technological innovations and job insecurity is moderated by firms' technology … of job loss vary according to the innovation-related strategies adopted by firms. We take advantage of a unique dataset …, workers' perceptions of job insecurity vary significantly across innovative firms and the adoption of technological …

labor. Technology has a predictive power depending on the specification used. We consistently find, however, that export …. Concretely, we run a horse-race among alternative Marshallian linkages across sectors: input-output relations, technology and …

. Compared to other firms operating in the same 5-digit sector, robot importers are larger, more productive, and employ a higher … improvements in efficiency and a fall in demand for labor. Guided by a simple model, we develop various empirical strategies to …

allowing firms to scale and reorganize. Using new firm-level data we examine the impact of cloud on firm growth, using zip … young firms, but they become concentrated in fewer establishments. For incumbents, we find smaller scale effects but … leads to worker relocation across establishments within firms. …

digital technologies (IDT), on firms’ employment structure using Italian firm-level data. It employs a unique empirical …-competent workforce, as supported by firms’ training and recruitment plans. Conversely, ODT investment does not significantly alter total … ODT and IDT and highlighting nuanced employment dynamics within firms. …