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Testing the employment impact of automation, robots and AI : a survey and some methodological issues
Barbieri, Laura; Mussida, Chiara; Piva, Mariacristina; … - 2019
The present technological revolution, characterized by the pervasive and growing presence of robots, automation, Artificial Intelligence and machine learning, is going to transform societies and economic systems. However, this is not the first technological revolution humankind has been facing,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012116763
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Technology and the demand for skill : an analysis of within and between firm differences
Abowd, John M.; Haltiwanger, John C.; Lane, Julia; … - 2007
We estimate the effects of technology investments on the demand for skilled workers using longitudinally integrated … unobservable components within each business for each year from 1992 to 1997. We measure technology using variables from the Annual … between advanced technology and skill in a cross-sectional analysis of businesses in both sectors. The more comprehensive …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003578359
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Institutions and economic performance : what can be explained?
Commander, Simon; Nikoloski, Zlatko - 2010
Institutions are now widely believed to be important in explaining performance. In this paper, we analyze whether commonly used measures of institutions have any significant, measurable impact on performance, whether of countries or firms. We look at three 'levels' of institutions and associated...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009153586
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Top team diversity and business performance : latent class analysis for firms and cities
Nathan, Max - 2014
A growing number of studies find linkages between workforce diversity and business performance, but key aspects of this relationship remain unclear. First, within the firm, the role of 'top team' demography on firm outcomes is surprisingly little understood. Second, urban location may amplify...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010408990
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Cross-country differences in productivity : the role of allocation and selection
Bartelsman, Eric J.; Haltiwanger, John C.; Scarpetta, … - 2009
This paper combines different strands of the productivity literature to investigate the effect of idiosyncratic (firm-level) policy distortions on aggregate outcomes. On the one hand, a growing body of empirical research has been relating cross-country differences in key economic outcomes, such...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003920110
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Skill-biased change in entrepreneurial technology
Poschke, Markus - 2010
. This paper proposes a simple theory of skill-biased change in entrepreneurial technology that fits with cross …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009011635
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Do entrepreneurs matter?
Becker, Sascha O.; Hvide, Hans K. - 2013
In the large literature on firm performance, economists have given little attention to entrepreneurs. We use deaths of more than 500 entrepreneurs as a source of exogenous variation, and ask whether this variation can explain shifts in firm performance. Using longitudinal data, we find large and...
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The firm size distribution across countries and skill-biased change in entrepreneurial technology
Poschke, Markus - 2014
entrepreneurial technology motivated by recent microeconomic literature that fits with the evidence. For this, it introduces two …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010250019
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Firm dynamics, job turnover, and wage distributions in an open economy
Cosar, A. Kerem; Guner, Nezih; Tybout, James R. - 2013
This paper explores the combined effects of reductions in trade frictions, tariffs, and firing costs on firm dynamics, job turnover, and wage distributions. It uses establishment-level data from Colombia to estimate an open economy dynamic model that links trade to job flows in a new way. The...
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The fall of the labor share and the rise of superstar firms
Autor, David H.; Dorn, David; Katz, Lawrence F.; … - 2017
The fall of labor's share of GDP in the United States and many other countries in recent decades is well documented but its causes remain uncertain. Existing empirical assessments of trends in labor's share typically have relied on industry or macro data, obscuring heterogeneity among firms. In...
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