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, as a technology platform, can automate tasks previously performed by labor or create new tasks and activities in which …
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) skills. These results support the complementarity view of the coexistence of student employment and low-skilled employment …
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demand, and use it to interpret changes in US employment over the recent past. At the center of our framework is the … slower growth of employment over the last three decades is accounted for by an acceleration in the displacement effect …
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associated with it. In particular, we distinguish between employment, hours and effort per worker, and allow for adjustment costs … associated with employment changes. We assume that the requirement function for effective hours has a general trans …-logarithmic form, and derive an estimable system of Euler equations for inventories and employment with implied cross …
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employment effects of routine-replacing technological change (RRTC), along with the underlying mechanisms. We show that while … new jobs through increased product demand, outweighing displacement effects and resulting in net employment growth …
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This study examines the impact of a technological change on employment and wages, focusing on the adoption of power … plant level, the power loom adaption increased the employment and wages of adult male workers, who likely conducted …-routine tasks. The wage hike of adult workers induced the exit of less efficient plants and decreased female adult employment by 28 …
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We unbox developments in artificial intelligence (AI) to estimate how exposure to these developments affect firm-level labour demand, using detailed register data from Denmark, Portugal and Sweden over two decades. Based on data on AI capabilities and occupational work content, we develop and...
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Rapid technological progress in artificial intelligence (AI) has been predicted to lead to mass unemployment, rising inequality, and higher productivity growth through automation. In this paper we critically re-assess these predictions by (i) surveying the recent literature and (ii)...
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At first blush, most advances in labour demand were achieved by the late 1980s. Since then progress might appear to have stalled. We argue to the contrary that significant progress has been made in understanding labour market frictions and imperfections, and in modelling search behaviour and...
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Russian manufacturing sector are not able to optimize their employment and why. Do they suffer from a labor shortage induced … by rapid growth, or are they still struggling with employment overhang? What are the occupations and skills in which … there is a supposed surplus or shortage? What factors affect the probability that a firm will report non-optimal employment …
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