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De-routinization in the fourth industrial revolution : firm-level evidence
Arntz, Melanie; Genz, Sabrina; Gregory, Terry; Lehmer, … - 2024
This paper examines the extent to which aggregate-level de-routinization can be attributed to firm-level technology adoption during the most recent technological expansion. We use administrative data and a novel firm survey to distinguish frontier technologies from older technologies. We find...
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Organizational redesign, information technologies and workplace productivity
Dostie, Benoît (contributor);  … - 2008
Using a large longitudinal, nationally representative workplace-level dataset, we explore the productivity gains … substitutes in production, and that the productivity gains associated with organizational redesign are industry …-specific. -- Productivity ; workplace practices ; linked employer-employee data ; information technologies …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003741920
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Effects of e-commerce on local labor markets
Bauer, Anahid; Fernández Guerrico, Sofia - 2023
This paper studies the effect of e-commerce on local labor markets. We exploit cross-market variation in e-commerce price advantage stemming from the enactment of the Amazon Tax-state-level legislation that mandates state sales taxes collection to out-of-state online retailers. Introducing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014319158
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Regulation and UK retailing productivity : evidence from micro data
Haskel, Jonathan; Sadun, Raffaella - 2009
We use UK micro data to explore whether planning regulation reduced UK retailing productivity growth between 1997 and … which increased the costs of opening large stores. This might have caused a slowdown in productivity growth if firms (a … productivity works out at about £80,000 per small chain supermarket store. -- Productivity ; retail ; regulation …
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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 …We present a framework for understanding the effects of automation and other types of technological changes on labor … allocation of tasks to capital and labor - the task content of production. Automation, which enables capital to replace labor in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012001461
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Advanced digital technologies and investment in employee training : complements or substitutes?
Brunello, Giorgio; Rückert, Désirée; Weiss, Christoph; … - 2023
affects the marginal productivity of the latter, and that a decline in the cost of introducing ADT reduces employers …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013543206
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Artificial intelligence and the skill premium
Bloom, David E.; Prettner, Klaus; Saadaoui, Jamel; … - 2024
How will the emergence of ChatGPT and other forms of artificial intelligence (AI) affect the skill premium? To address this question, we propose a nested constant elasticity of substitution production function that distinguishes among three types of capital: traditional physical capital...
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Rise of the machines : the effects of labor-saving innovations on jobs and wages
Feng, Andy; Graetz, Georg - 2015
How do firms respond to technological advances that facilitate the automation of tasks? Which tasks will they automate …
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How do workers perceive the risks from automation and the opportunities to retrain? : evidence from a survey of truck drivers
Shoag, Daniel W.; Strain, Michael R.; Veuger, Stan - 2021
How do truck drivers perceive the risk they face from automation and their opportunities to retrain for employment in a … concerned about automation are, counterintuitively, also most likely to say they intend to re-invest in driving by seeking …
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People versus machines in the UK : minimum wages, labor reallocation and automatable jobs
Lordan, Grace - 2019
This study follows the Lordan and Neumark (2018) analysis for the US, and examines whether minimum wage increases affect employment opportunities in automatable jobs in the UK for low-skilled low-wage workers. Overall, I find that increasing the minimum wage decreases the share of automatable...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012127323