supply of labor encourages technological progress. In contrast, the famous Habakkuk hypothesis in economic history claims …This paper studies the conditions under which the scarcity of a factor (in particular, labor) encourages technological … that technological progress was more rapid in 19th-century United States than in Britain because of labor scarcity in the …

This paper explores the employment impact of innovation activity, taking into account both R&D expenditures and …-2010. The main outcome from the proposed fixed effect estimations is a labor-friendly nature of total innovation expenditures … ETC is included as a proxy for innovation activities. Moreover, the positive employment impacts of innovation activities …

positive and significant impact of AI patent families on employment, supporting the labour-friendly nature of product …

The aim of this paper is twofold. On the one hand, the economic insights about the employment impact of technological … employment effect appears to be entirely due to the medium-and high-tech sectors, while no effect can be detected in the low …-tech industries; 2) capital formation is found to be negatively related to employment; this outcome points to a possible labour …

, as a technology platform, can automate tasks previously performed by labor or create new tasks and activities in which … on creating new tasks where labor can be productively employed. The consequences of this choice have been stagnating … labor demand, declining labor share in national income, rising inequality and lower productivity growth. The current …

Even before the Great Recession, U.S. employment growth was unimpressive. Between 2000 and 2007, the economy gave back … the considerable employment gains achieved during the 1990s, with a historic contraction in manufacturing employment being … force behind both recent reductions in U.S. manufacturing employment and - through input-output linkages and other general …

labor-friendly impact of R&D expenditures (mainly related to product innovation) is found; yet, this positive employment …) capital formation is found to be negatively related to employment; this outcome suggests a possible labor-saving effect due to …The aim of this paper is twofold. On the one hand, the economic insights on the employment impact of technological …

labor reallocation, which should raise employment in non-exposed sectors, and Keynesian multipliers, which should reduce …Even before the Great Recession, U.S. employment growth was unimpressive. Between 2000 and 2007, the economy gave back … the considerable gains in employment rates it had achieved during the 1990s, with major contractions in manufacturing …