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De-routinization in the fourth industrial revolution : firm-level evidence
Arntz, Melanie; Genz, Sabrina; Gregory, Terry; Lehmer, … - 2024
This paper examines the extent to which aggregate-level de-routinization can be attributed to firm-level technology adoption during the most recent technological expansion. We use administrative data and a novel firm survey to distinguish frontier technologies from older technologies. We find...
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Are we yet sick of new technologies? : the unequal health effects of digitalization
Arntz, Melanie; Findeisen, Sebastian; Maurer, Stephan; … - 2024
This study quantifies the relationship between workplace digitalization, i.e., the increasing use of frontier technologies, and workers’ health outcomes using novel and representative German linked employer-employee data. Based on changes in individual-level use of technologies between 2011...
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Automation and productivity : evidence from Thai manufacturing firms
Kanit Sangsubhan; Kumpon Pornpattanapaisankul; Pisacha … - 2023
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014320212
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The transmission of sectoral shocks across the innovation network
Fons-Rosen, Christian; Pu, Zhaoxin - 2020
Recent innovation literature has documented the benefits of cross-pollination of ideas across a wide set of industries and technology fields in an economy. Industrial and trade policies, by contrast, tend to favor economic specialization through the promotion of selected sectors. In this paper...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012150167
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Technological learning systems, competitiveness and development
Viotti, Eduardo Baumgratz - 2015
resources depletion as a way to compensate for its relatively low initial productivity. The cases of four latecomers - Brazil … very large increases in their shares of world technological productions, greatly shrinking the productivity and per capita …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012023794
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Automation and polarization
Acemoglu, Daron; Löbbing, Jonas - 2023
increases in capital productivity ultimately induce a transition to low-skill automation and qualitatively alter the effects of …We develop an assignment model of automation. Each of a continuum of tasks of variable complexity is assigned to either … capital or one of a continuum of labor skills. We characterize conditions for interior automation, whereby tasks of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014496402
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The impact of digital technologies on worker tasks : do labor policies matter?
Corseuil, Carlos H. L.; Poole, Jennifer P.; Almeida, Rita - 2018
Between 1999 and 2006, Brazilian cities experienced strong growth in the provision of internet services, driven in part by the privatization of the telecommunications industry. A main concern of policymakers is that digital technology replaces routine, manual tasks, displacing lower-skilled...
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Computers as stepping stones? : technological change and equality of labor market opportunities
Arntz, Melanie; Lipowski, Cäcilia; Neidhöfer, Guido; … - 2022
This paper analyzes whether technological change improves equality of labor market opportunities by decreasing returns to parental background. We find that in Germany during the 1990s, computerization improved the access to technology adopting occupations for workers with low-educated parents,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014082604
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Wage divergence and unemployment : the impact of insider power and training costs
Muysken, Joan - 2000
The US labour market is characterized by a high skill wage mark-up and low unemployment, while the German labour market has a low skill wage mark-up and a high, mainly unskilled unemployment rate. This paper adds an innovative labour supply explanation to the discussion how these distinct labour...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013428334
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Computers as stepping stones? : technological change and equality of labor market opportunities
Arntz, Melanie; Lipowski, Cäcilia; Neidhöfer, Guido; … - 2022
This paper analyzes whether technological change improves equality of labor market opportunities by decreasing returns to parental background. We find that in Germany during the 1990s, computerization improved the access to technologyadopting occupations for workers with low-educated parents,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013202834