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technologies, and workers’ health outcomes using novel and representative German linked employer-employee data. Based on changes in … and service-oriented tasks across all workers, but exacerbates health inequality between cognitive and manual workers …. Unlike more mature, computer-based technologies, frontier technologies of the recent technology wave substantially lower …
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suggest that developing countries grow faster when they are globally competitive in low-technology manufacturing and natural …
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of AI technology and estimate its productivity effects with a sample of German firms. We employ both a cross …Artificial Intelligence (AI) is often regarded as the next general-purpose technology with a rapid, penetrating, and … far-reaching use over a broad number of industrial sectors. A main feature of new general-purpose technology is to enable …
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Artificial Intelligence (AI) represents a set of techniques that enable new ways of innovation and allows firms to … firms. Based on firm-level data from the German part of the Community Innovation Survey (CIS) 2018, we examine the … survey allows extrapolating the findings to the macroeconomic level. The results show that 5.8% of firms in Germany were …
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The COVID-19 pandemic has affected firms in many economies. Exploiting treatment heterogeneity, we use a difference … in subsequent years. Based on a representative sample of German firms, we find that negatively affected firms …, innovation spending was even 5.4 % lower compared to the counterfactual scenario without the pandemic. Firms with higher pre …
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This paper examines the extent to which aggregate-level de-routinization can be attributed to firm-level technology … deroutinization. However, this is driven only by a subset of these firms: large adopters replace routine jobs and less routine …-intensive adopters experience faster growth. These scale and composition effects reflect firms' readiness to adopt and implement frontier …
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We study how profit taxation affects plants' R&D spending and innovation activities. Relying on geocoded survey panel data which approximately covers the universe of R&D-active plants in Germany, we exploit around 7,300 changes in the municipal business tax rate over the period 1987-2013 for...
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How does revolutionary technological change impact wealth inequality? We turn to the mother of all technological shocks–the Industrial Revolution–and analyze its role for wealth concentration both empirically and theoretically. Based on a novel dataset on wealth shares at the level of...
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