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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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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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(Successful) Democracies Breed Their Own Support

Acemoglu, Daron; Ajzenman, Nicolas; Aksoy, Cevat Giray; … - 2022

Using large-scale survey data covering more than 110 countries and exploiting within-country variation across cohorts and surveys, we show that individuals with longer exposure to democracy display stronger support for democratic institutions. We bolster these baseline findings using an...

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