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This paper examines the response of industries and firms to changes in trade costs. Several new firm-level models of international trade with heterogeneous firms predict that industry productivity will rise as trade costs fall due to the reallocation of activity across plants within an industry....
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computing technologies. This paper surveys the evidence on the effects of technical change on skills, wages and employment by … level product innovations appear to raise employment growth, but there is no clear evidence of a robust effect (either …
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In this work, we test the employment impact of distinct types of innovative investments using a representative sample … significant employment effect. However, the job-creation impact of R&D expenditures becomes highly significant when the focus is …
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In 2019, the employment rate among 25- to 64-year-olds in the UK reached 80% - the highest on record, and considerably … certain policies and compositional changes on the employment rate. We also investigate how job 'quality' - in both financial … and non-financial terms - has changed. We find that almost all demographic groups and regions saw a rise in employment …
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The diffusion of digital technologies and their impact on employment and skills is investigated inthis article …. We first investigate their effect on total employment finding that job creation in industriesis supported by high digital …
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determining sectoral employment dynamics. This purpose is achieved through the construction of an indicator capturing the amount … to the literature on innovation-employment nexus, inter-sectoral knowledge spillovers and Global Value Chains, building … dimension for determining employment dynamics is then tested on a panel data of European industries over the 2008-2014 period …
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The purpose of this paper is to investigate the mechanisms underlying the relationship between automation and labor market polarization. To do so, we build an agent-based model (ABM) in which workers, heterogeneous in nature and level of skills, interact endogenously on a decentralized labor...
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What have we learned, from the most recent years of debate and analysis, of the future of work being threatened by technology? This paper presents a critical review of the empirical literature and outlines both lessons learned and challenges ahead. Far from being fully exhaustive, the review...
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model is used to consistently recover the full distribution of wages accounting for systematic differences in employment …
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effect on the adopters' employment and on the value-added and average wage, whereas sales and productivity increase after an … initial drop with a net positive effect five years after adoption. Crucially, the employment effect is heterogeneous across … technologies has an overall negative effect on aggregate employment. …
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