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Robots at Work : Automatable and Non Automatable Jobs

Josten, Cecily - 2019

This study builds on Autor and Dorn's (2013) classification of automatable work at the three-digit occupation code level to identify additional jobs that will be automatable in the next decade by drawing on patent data. Based on this new classification the study provides estimates of the share...

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Robots at Work

Graetz, Georg - 2015

robot use with a measure of workers' replaceability by robots, which is based on the tasks prevalent in industries before …

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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 … value added and hours worked for robot-adopting firms and negative outcomes on competitors in the same industry. Our worker … earnings and employment rates, while other workers indirectly gain from robot adoption. We also find that the negative effects …

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The Impact of Teams on Output, Quality and Downtime : An Empirical Analysis Using Individual Panel Data

Jones, Derek C.; Kato, Takao - 2021

To investigate the size and the timing of the direct impact of participatory arrangements on business performance, we assemble and analyze extraordinary daily data - for rejection, production and downtime rates for all operators in a single plant during a 35 month period, more than 77,000...

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Wage Adjustment and Productivity Shocks

Carlsson, Mikael - 2011

We study how workers' wages respond to TFP-driven innovations in firms' labor productivity. Using unique data with highly reliable firm-level output prices and quantities in the manufacturing sector in Sweden, we are able to derive measures of physical (as opposed to revenue) TFP to instrument...

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Labor Productivity During the Great Depression in UK Manufacturing

Hart, Robert A. - 2019

This paper provides estimates of labor productivity for one-third of UK manufacturing during the Great Depression. It covers engineering and allied industries, and metal working industries. A unique data set of actual hours of work is combined with comparable real output and employment...

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Real Unit Labour Costs in Eurozone Countries : Drivers and Clusters

Ordóñez Monfort, Javier - 2014

We examine the trajectories of the real unit labour costs (RULCs) in a selection of Eurozone economies. Strong asymmetries in the convergence process of the RULCs and its components – real wages, capital intensity, and technology – are uncovered through decomposition and cluster analyses. In...

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Why Do South Korean Firms Produce so Much More Output Per Worker than Ghanaian Ones?

Baptist, Simon - 2015

Macro analysis of the sources of income differences has produced very different results as to the importance of education. In this paper we investigate the roles of education and technology in explaining differences in firm level productivity across Ghana and South Korea. The labour productivity...

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Labour Productivity in Kenyan Manufacturing and Service Industries

Heshmati, Almas - 2016

Labour productivity reflects a firm's ability to generate higher production or value-added. This paper analyses labour productivity and its determinants in the manufacturing and service sectors in Kenya. As the largest economy in East Africa, it is crucial for Kenya to have high labour...

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Labour Productivity During the Great Depression and the Great Recession in UK Engineering and Metal Manufacture

Hart, Robert A. - 2020

This paper compares labour productivity during the Great Depression (GD) and the Great Recession (GR) in engineering, metal working and allied industries. Throughout, it distinguishes between output per worker and output per hour. From the peak-to-trough of the GD cycle, hourly labour...

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