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' intensive margins. Short-run changes in work intensity and the longer-term goal of restoring full potential productivity …
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-adjusted index of labor services. We find that Total Factor Productivity (TFP) growth decreases significantly when using the latter … method. This means that when using the alternative method one explains more of the growth in labor productivity than what a …
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This paper investigates an alternative proxy for individual worker productivity in physical work settings: a direct … daily productivity obtained from firm personnel data, with physical activity; they are strongly related. Second, the paper …
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, R&D investments, and productivity across 12 OECD economies and 17 manufacturing and service industries. Much of the … positive relationship between those cognitive skills and the labour productivity in a country-sector combination. The part of … the cross-country cross-sector variation in labour productivity that can be explained by human capital is remarkably large …
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for the smaller samples of sub-groups of the workforce, the general findings are robust to this measurement issue. Thus …
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impact of AI on jobs, inequality, wages, labor productivity and long-run GDP growth are explored. …
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inequality, and higher productivity growth through automation. In this paper we critically re-assess these predictions by (i … aggregate demand. A second is that the predictions of AI causing massive job losses and faster growth in productivity and GDP … growth and productivity is stagnating and inequality is rising. Our paper provides a theoretical explanation of this in the …
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from the EUKLEMS database. Our main findings are as follows. Over 2000-2005, market sector labour productivity grew at 2 … innovation contributed 61% (=(1.24+0.45)/2.74)of labour productivity growth over the period. -- Innovation ; productivity growth …
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Research on child skill formation and related policies typically rely on parent- reported measures of child non-cognitive skills. In this paper, we show that parental assessments of child non-cognitive skills are directly affected by the skills of the parents. We develop a dynamic model of child...
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It is widely argued that declining fertility slows the pace of economic growth in industrialized countries through its negative effect on labor supply. There are, however, theoretical arguments suggesting that the effect of falling fertility on effective labor supply can be offset by associated...
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