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Measuring process innovation outputs and understanding their implications for firms and workers : evidence from Pakistan
Wadho, Waqar; Chaudhry, Azam - 2024
New processes significantly affect firms and workers; however, due to a lack of quantitative indicators, our understanding of the measures, determinants, and impacts of new processes remains limited. Drawing on unique data from Pakistan, we analyzed five different measures of process innovation...
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Estimation of technical change and TFP growth based on observable technology shifters
Heshmati, Almas; Rashidghalam, Masoomeh - 2017
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 … exogenous growth factors are used in modeling four technology shifter indices to explore development infrastructure, finances …
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Drivers of labor force participation in advanced economies : macro and micro evidence
Grigoli, Francesco; Koczan, Zsoka; Topalova, Petia - 2018
Despite significant headwinds from population aging in most advanced economies (AEs), labor force participation rates show remarkably divergent trajectories both across countries and across different groups of workers. Participation increased sharply among prime-age women and, more recently,...
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Whither the evolution of the contemporary social fabric? : new technologies and old socio-economic trends
Dosi, Giovanni; Virgillito, Maria Enrica - 2019
possible new techno-economic paradigms. Third, we examine the relationships between technology, productivity and growth, and …
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Testing the employment and skill impact of new technologies : a survey and some methodological issues
Barbieri, Laura; Mussida, Chiara; Piva, Mariacristina; … - 2019
The present technological revolution, characterized by the pervasive and growing presence of robots, automation, Artificial Intelligence and machine learning, is going to transform societies and economic systems. However, this is not the first technological revolution humankind has been facing,...
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Artificial intelligence, income distribution and economic growth
Gries, Thomas; Naudé, Wim - 2020
demand and slow down GDP growth, even in the face of the positive technology shock that AI entails. If the elasticity of …
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The reassuring effect of firms' technological innovations on workers' job insecurity
Caselli, Mauro; Fracasso, Andrea; Marcolin, Arianna; … - 2021
We analyse how the adoption of technological innovations correlates with workers' perceived levels of job insecurity, and what factors mediate such relationship, by exploiting a recent, large and dedicated survey distributed to a representative sam- ple of Italian workers. The dedicated survey...
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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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The empirics of technology, employment and occupations : lessons learned and challenges ahead
Montobbio, Fabio; Staccioli, Jacopo; Virgillito, Maria … - 2022
technology? This paper presents a critical review of the empirical literature and outlines both lessons learned and challenges … outcomes across studies-still stand, including (i) the variable used as a proxy for technology, (ii) the level of aggregation …
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The role of institutions in job teleworkability before and after the Covid-19 pandemic
Norlander, Peter; Erickson, Christopher - 2022
The teleworkability of jobs - whether they can and will be performed remotely - has been increasingly contested in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic. To explain which jobs are teleworkable and why, we emphasize the institutional context of a job, including differences among firms, union...
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