supply on automation innovation by exploiting an immigrant placement policy in Germany during the 1990s and 2000s. Difference …-in-differences estimates indicate that one additional worker per 1,000 manual and unskilled workers reduces automation innovation by 0 …-skilled workers. Labor market tightness and external demand are plausible mechanisms for the labor-innovation nexus …

Does competitive pressure foster innovation? In addressing this important question, priorstudies ignored a distinction … between discrete innovation aiming at entirely new technologyand continuous improvement consisting of numerous incremental …

Does competitive pressure foster innovation? In addressing this important question, prior studies ignored a distinction … between discrete innovation aiming at entirely new technology and continuous improvement consisting of numerous incremental … innovation will lead to a much richer understanding of the interplay between firms' incentives to innovate and competitive …

The present technological revolution, characterized by the pervasive and growing presence of robots, automation …

differentiated by country income group. Finally, we examine how accelerated automation could affect job creation needs over the … target levels of 8 percent for youth and 4 percent for adults, and automation combine to require the creation of …

investment. This allows us to quantify the role of advancement in automation technology in accounting for these labor market …

survey (ESJS), jobs are bundled according to their estimated risk of automation. The paper builds on the methodology of … high risk of automation. The distribution of high automatability across industries and occupations is also found to be …

automation further compound the challenge of job creation, which is already quite sizable in historical perspective. Failure to …

We analyze the effect of automation and offshorability on unemployment duration and post-unemployment outcomes such as … find re-employment, our results show that offshorability (but not automation) affects future job duration and wages …