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How do workers adjust when firms adopt new technologies?
Genz, Sabrina; Gregory, Terry; Janser, Markus; Lehmer, … - 2021
’ technology adoption to administrative social security data. We then compare individual outcomes between workers employed at … technology adopters relative to non-adopters. Depending on the type of technology, we find evidence for improved employment … stability, higher wage growth, and increased cumulative earnings in response to digital technology adoption. These beneficial …
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Artificial intelligence and industrial innovation : evidence from firm-level data
Rammer, Christian; Fernández, Gastón P.; Czarnitzki, Dirk - 2021 - This version: March 2021
Artificial Intelligence (AI) represents a set of techniques that enable new ways of innovation and allows firms to offer new features of products and services, to improve production, marketing and administration processes, and to introduce new business models. This paper analyses the extent to...
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Artificial intelligence and firm-level productivity
Czarnitzki, Dirk; Fernández, Gastón P.; Rammer, Christian - 2022
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 … of AI technology and estimate its productivity effects with a sample of German firms. We employ both a cross …
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Evidence on the adoption of Artificial Intelligence : the role of skills shortage
Carioli, Paolo; Czarnitzki, Dirk; Fernández, Gastón P. - 2024 - This version: January 2024
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is considered to be the next general-purpose technology, with the potential of performing …
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Growth impacts of the exchange rate and technology
Márquez-Velázquez, Alejandro - 2016
suggest that developing countries grow faster when they are globally competitive in low-technology manufacturing and natural …
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Industrialization, returns, inequality
Albers, Thilo N. H.; Kersting, Felix; Stieglitz, Timo - 2023
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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Digitalization and the future of work : macroeconomic consequences
Arntz, Melanie; Gregory, Terry; Zierahn, Ulrich - 2019
Computing power continues to grow at an enormous rate. Simultaneously, more and better data is increasingly available and Machine Learning methods have seen significant breakthroughs in the recent past. All this pushes further the boundary of what machines can do. Nowadays increasingly complex...
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The returns to education for opportunity entrepreneurs, necessity entrepreneurs, and paid employees
Fossen, Frank M.; Büttner, Tobias J. M. - 2012
We assess the relevance of formal education for the productivity of the self-employed and distinguish between opportunity entrepreneurs, who voluntarily pursue a business opportunity, and necessity entrepreneurs, who lack alternative employment options. We expect differences in the returns to...
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Automation and polarization
Acemoglu, Daron; Löbbing, Jonas - 2023
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 intermediate complexity are assigned to capital. Interior...
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When the minimum wage really bites hard : impact on top earners and skill supply
Gregory, Terry; Zierahn, Ulrich - 2020
We investigate minimum wage spillovers by exploiting the first-time introduction of a minimum wage within a quasi-experiment in a context with an extraordinary large bite: the German roofing industry. We find positive wage spillovers for medium-skilled workers with wages just above the minimum...
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