Using a large longitudinal, nationally representative workplace-level dataset, we explore the productivity gains … substitutes in production, and that the productivity gains associated with organizational redesign are industry-specific …

We use UK micro data to explore whether planning regulation reduced UK retailing productivity growth between 1997 and … which increased the costs of opening large stores. This might have caused a slowdown in productivity growth if firms (a … productivity works out at about pound;80,000 per small chain supermarket store …

We show, theoretically and empirically, that the effects of technological change associated with automation and … is that better matches enjoy a comparative advantage in exploiting automation and a comparative disadvantage in … exploiting offshoring. It implies that automation (offshoring) may reduce (raise) employment by lengthening (shortening …

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 …

ideology scores from the Manifesto Project. We measure exposure to automation both at the regional level, based on the ex …

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 …

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