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Management as a Technology?
Bloom, Nicholas - 2016
Are some management practices akin to a technology that can explain company and national productivity, or do they … size-weighted average management score. We present a formal model of "Management as a Technology", and structurally …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012988568
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Technology and the Demand for Skill : An Analysis of Within and Between Firm Differences
Abowd, John M.; Haltiwanger, John; Lane, Julia; … - 2021
We estimate the effects of technology investments on the demand for skilled workers using longitudinally integrated … unobservable components within each business for each year from 1992 to 1997. We measure technology using variables from the Annual … between advanced technology and skill in a cross-sectional analysis of businesses in both sectors. The more comprehensive …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013317198
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Manufacturing Employment and Exchange Rates in the Portuguese Economy : The Role of Openness, Technology and Labour Market Rigidity
Alexandre, Fernando - 2010
In this paper, we explore empirically the role of openness, technology and labour market rigidity in the determination … and that the labour market in high technology sectors is more flexible than in low technology sectors. We use this index … that employment in low-technology sectors, with a high degree of trade openness and facing less rigidity in the labour …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013136773
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New Technologies and Jobs in Europe
Albanesi, Stefania; Dias da Silva, Antonio; Jimeno, Juan F. - 2023
pace of technology diffusion and education, but also to the level of product market regulation (competition) and employment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014347797
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Innovation and the Labor Market : Theory, Evidence and Challenges
Corrocher, Nicoletta; Moschella, Daniele; Staccioli, Jacopo - 2023
This paper deals with the complex relationship between innovation and the labor market, analyzing the impact of new technological advancements on overall employment, skills and wages. After a critical review of the extant literature and the available empirical studies, novel evidence is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014348234
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Labour Market Dynamics in Australia : What Drives Unemployment?
Karanassou, Marika - 2009
The debate in Australia on the (constant-output) elasticity of labour demand with respect to wages has wrongly sidelined the role of capital stock as a determinant of employment (Webster, 2003). As far back as 1991, Pissarides had argued that the influence of capital stock on the performance of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012765309
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Skills-Displacing Technological Change and its Impact on Jobs : Challenging Technological Alarmism?
McGuinness, Seamus - 2019
also presents the first direct micro-evidence of the reinstatement effect of automating technology, namely a positive …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012863813
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Employer Power, Labor Saving Technical Change, and Inequality
Chau, Nancy H. - 2018
How does employer power mediate the impact of labor saving technical change on inequality? This question has largely been neglected in the recent literature on the wage and distributional consequences of automation, where the labor market is assumed to be competitive. In a simple task-based...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012918905
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Globalization, Technological Change and Labor Demand : A Firm Level Analysis for Turkey
Meschi, Elena F. - 2015
This paper studies the interlinked relationship between globalization and technological upgrading in affecting employment and wages of skilled and unskilled workers in a middle income developing country. It exploits a unique longitudinal firm‐level database that covers all manufacturing firms...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013012811
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Technological Progress and (Un)Employment Development
Blien, Uwe - 2017
In recent times the employment effects of technical progress raised much intention. Will recent productivity gains lead to technological unemployment or to a new prosperity? In our paper it is shown formally that under general and standard preconditions the price elasticity of demand on product...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012965043