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Measuring process innovation outputs and understanding their implications for firms and workers : evidence from Pakistan

Wadho, Waqar; Chaudhry, Azam - 2024

analyzed five different measures of process innovation output: cost reductions, defect rate reductions, reductions in … of innovative capabilities, level of competition, and availability of market sources of knowledge are important inducers … of process innovation and that smaller firms are more likely to introduce new processes and are better able to transform …

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The supply of foreign talent : how skill-biased technology drives the location choice and skills of new immigrants

Beerli, Andreas; Indergand, Ronald; Kunz, Johannes - 2021

An important goal of immigration policy is to facilitate the entry of foreignborn workers whose skills are in short supply in national labor markets. In recent decades, information and communication technology [ICT] has fueled the demand for highly educated workers at the expense of lower...

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Covid-19 and technology

Caselli, Mauro; Fracasso, Andrea - 2021

This contribution reviews the rich interdisciplinary literature covering the relationship between the diffusion of COVID-19 and the adoption of technologies in various sectors of the economy, ranging from health care facilities to manufacturing companies. Besides covering the technical and...

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Labour-saving automation and occupational exposure : a text-similarity measure

Montobbio, Fabio; Staccioli, Jacopo; Virgillito, Maria … - 2021

This paper represents one of the first attempts at building a direct measure of occupational exposure to robotic labour-saving technologies. After identifying robotic and LS robotic patents retrieved by Montobbio et al. (2022), the underlying 4-digit CPC definitions are employed in order to...

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Does the rise of robotic technology make people healthier?

Gunadi, Christian; Ryu, Hanbyul - 2020

Technological advancements bring changes to our life, altering our behaviors as well as our role in the economy. In this paper, we examine the potential effect of the rise of robotic technology on health. The results of the analysis suggest that higher penetration of industrial robots in the...

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Artiﬁcial intelligence, income distribution and economic growth

Gries, Thomas; Naudé, Wim - 2020

The economic impact of Artiﬁcial Intelligence (AI) is studied using a (semi) endogenous growth model with two novel features. First, the task approach from labor economics is reformulated and integrated into a growth model. Second, the standard representative household assumption is rejected,...

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Globalization, technological change and skills : evidence from Ethiopia

Haile, Getinet Astatike; Srour, Ilina; Vivarelli, Marco - 2017

There is a dearth of research on the impact of technological change over employment in least developed countries (LDCs) embarking on globalization and consequent international technological transfer. Using a panel of 1,940 Ethiopian firms over the period 1996-2004 and deploying GMMSYS estimates,...

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Policies to expand digital skills for the machine age

Martin, John P. - 2017

A new technological epoch is underway - the so-called Machine Age - reflecting advances in artificial intelligence, digitalisation and Big Data. Some commentators have claimed that this epoch is different from previous ones in that it will produce large-scale technological unemployment, while...

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Technological change and occupation mobility : a task-based approach to horizontal mismatch

Aepli, Manuel - 2019

Technological change and its impacts on labour markets are a much-discussed topic in economics. Economists generally assume that new technology penetrating the labour market shifts firms' task demand. Given individuals' acquired and supplied skills, these task demand shifts potentially foster...

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Robots and the origin of their labour-saving impact

Montobbio, Fabio; Staccioli, Jacopo; Virgillito, Maria … - 2020

This paper investigates the presence of explicit labour-saving heuristics within robotic patents. It analyses innovative actors engaged in robotic technology and their economic environment (identity, location, industry), and identifies the technological fields particularly exposed to...

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