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Automation and new tasks : how technology displaces and reinstates labor

Acemoglu, Daron; Restrepo, Pascual - 2019

productivity. The effects of automation are counterbalanced by the creation of new tasks in which labor has a comparative advantage …, especially in manufacturing, a weaker reinstatement effect, and slower growth of productivity than in previous decades. …

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Robots and workers : evidence from the Netherlands

Acemoglu, Daron; Koster, Hans; Ozgen, Ceren - 2023

We estimate the effects of robot adoption on firm-level and worker-level outcomes in the Netherlands using a large employer-employee panel dataset spanning 2009-2020. Our firm-level results confirm previous findings, with positive effects on value added and hours worked for robot-adopting firms...

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Reevaluating the modernization hypothesis

Acemoglu, Daron; Johnson, Simon; Robinson, James A.; … - In: Journal of monetary economics 56 (2009) 8, pp. 1043-1058

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Import competition and the great US employment sag of the 2000s

Acemoglu, Daron; Autor, David H.; Dorn, David; Hanson, … - 2015

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 a prime contributor to the slump. We estimate that...

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Return of the Solow paradox? : IT, productivity, and employment in US manufacturing

Acemoglu, Daron; Autor, David H.; Dorn, David; Hanson, … - 2014

rapidly raising productivity while making workers redundant. This paper explores the evidence for this view among the IT …-using U.S. manufacturing industries. There is some limited support for more rapid productivity growth in IT … expectations, is that output contracts in IT-intensive industries relative to the rest of manufacturing. Productivity increases …

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(Successful) democracies breed their own support

Acemoglu, Daron; Ajzenman, Nicolas; Aksoy, Cevat Giray; … - 2021

Using large-scale survey data covering more than 110 countries and exploiting within-country variation across cohorts and surveys, we show that individuals with longer exposure to democracy display stronger support for democratic institutions. We bolster these baseline findings using an...

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Asymmetric business cycles : theory and time-series evidence

Acemoglu, Daron - In: Journal of monetary economics 40 (1997) 3, pp. 501-533

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The wrong kind of AI? : artificial intelligence and the future of labor demand

Acemoglu, Daron; Restrepo, Pascual - 2019

labor demand, declining labor share in national income, rising inequality and lower productivity growth. The current …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012001438