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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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impact of AI on jobs, inequality, wages, labor productivity and long-run GDP growth are explored. …In "The Race between Man and Machine: Implications of Technology for Growth, Factor Shares, and Employment," Acemoglu …
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technology, (iii) weaknesses in the education system, and (iv) entrepreneurial stagnation. Implications for policy are noted. Our …
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aggregate demand. A second is that the predictions of AI causing massive job losses and faster growth in productivity and GDP … inequality, and higher productivity growth through automation. In this paper we critically re-assess these predictions by (i … growth and productivity is stagnating and inequality is rising. Our paper provides a theoretical explanation of this in the …
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productivity growth ; technology indicator ; technology shifter ; OECD countries … call technology shifters (economic factors). We use several composite technology indices based on appropriate combinations … of the external economic factors which are indicators of different aspects of technology. These technology indices are …
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demand and slow down GDP growth, even in the face of the positive technology shock that AI entails. If the elasticity of … substitution is low, then GDP, productivity and wage growth may however still slow down, because the economy will then fail to …, productivity, and GDP. …
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This paper explores the employment impact of innovation activity, taking into account both R&D expenditures and embodied technological change (ETC). We use a novel panel dataset covering 265 innovative Italian firms over the period 1998-2010. The main outcome from the proposed fixed effect...
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This paper models and estimates total factor productivity (TFP) growth parametrically. The model is a generalization of … the traditional production model where technology is represented by a time trend. TFP growth is decomposed into … unobservable technical change, scale economies and observable technology shifter index components. The empirical results are based …
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After a number of AI-winters, AI is back with a boom. There are concerns that it will disrupt society. The immediate concern is whether labor can win a 'race against the robots' and the longer-term concern is whether an artificial general intelligence (super-intelligence) can be controlled. This...
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This paper examines the extent to which aggregate-level de-routinization can be attributed to firm-level technology … technologies. Our results suggest that an acceleration of technology adoption would be associated with faster de-routinization and …
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