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Reevaluating the modernization hypothesis
Acemoglu, Daron; Johnson, Simon; Robinson, James A.; … - In: Journal of monetary economics 56 (2009) 8, pp. 1043-1058
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Import Competition and the Great U.S. Employment Sag of the 2000s
Acemoglu, Daron - 2015
Even before the Great Recession, U.S. employment growth was unimpressive. Between 2000 and 2007, the economy gave back the considerable employment gains achieved during the 1990s, with a historic contraction in manufacturing employment being a prime contributor to the slump. We estimate that...
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Return of the Solow Paradox? It, Productivity, and Employment in U.S. Manufacturing
Acemoglu, Daron - 2014
rapidly raising productivity while making workers redundant. This paper explores the evidence for this view among the IT …-using U.S. manufacturing industries. There is some limited support for more rapid productivity growth in IT … expectations, is that output contracts in IT-intensive industries relative to the rest of manufacturing. Productivity increases …
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Automation and New Tasks : How Technology Displaces and Reinstates Labor
Acemoglu, Daron - 2019
productivity.The effects of automation are counterbalanced by the creation of new tasks in which labor has a comparative advantage …, especially in manufacturing, a weaker reinstatement effect, and slower growth of productivity than in previous decades …
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Robots and Workers : Evidence from the Netherlands
Acemoglu, Daron; Koster, Hans; Ozgen, Ceren - 2023
We estimate the effects of robot adoption on firm-level and worker-level outcomes in the Netherlands using a large employer-employee panel dataset spanning 2009-2020. Our firm-level results confirm previous findings, with positive effects on value added and hours worked for robot-adopting firms...
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Asymmetric business cycles : theory and time-series evidence
Acemoglu, Daron - In: Journal of monetary economics 40 (1997) 3, pp. 501-533
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