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Incentive pay and firm productivity : evidence from China
Jin, Zhangfeng; Pan, Shiyuan - 2020
This study examines the causes and consequences of incentive pay adoption among Chinese manufacturing firms. First, we find that a higher degree of labor scarcity encourages firms to adopt more incentive pay. Second, using an instrumental variables approach, we find that a 10 percentage point...
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Globalization, structural change and innovation in emerging economies : the impact on employment and skills
Vivarelli, Marco - 2018
where domestic innovation has to be complemented by the role played by international technology transfer. In the second part … technology transfer, labor-saving technological progress and skill-enhancing trade. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012129950
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Technology and employment in a vertically connected economy : a model and an empirical test
Dosi, Giovanni; Piva, M.; Virgillito, Maria Enrica; … - 2019
This paper addresses, both theoretically and empirically, the sectoral patterns of job creation and job destruction in order to distinguish the alternative effects of embodied vs disembodied technological change operating into a vertically connected economy. Disembodied technological change...
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012703254
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The impact of ICT on working from home : evidence from EU countries
Jerbashian, Vahagn; Vilalta-Bufi, Montserrat - 2020
technologies (ICT) is associated with a significant increase in the share of employees who work from home. Similar results hold … in ICT prices on working from home increases with age. A rationale for such a result is that the preference for working …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012316419
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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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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012262282
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012098960
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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,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012149222
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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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