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The Wrong Kind of AI? Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Labor Demand

Acemoglu, Daron; Restrepo, Pascual - 2019

Artificial Intelligence is set to influence every aspect of our lives, not least the way production is organized. AI, as a technology platform, can automate tasks previously performed by labor or create new tasks and activities in which humans can be productively employed. Recent technological...

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Automation and New Tasks: How Technology Displaces and Reinstates Labor

Acemoglu, Daron; Restrepo, Pascual - 2019

We present a framework for understanding the effects of automation and other types of technological changes on labor demand, and use it to interpret changes in US employment over the recent past. At the center of our framework is the allocation of tasks to capital and labor – the task content...

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Minimum Wages and On-the-Job Training

Acemoglu, Daron; Pischke, Jörn-Steffen - 2001

Becker?s theory of human capital predicts that minimum wages should reduce training investments for affected workers because they prevent these workers from taking wage cuts necessary to finance training. In contrast, in noncompetitive labor markets, minimum wages tend to increase training of...

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Robots and Workers: Evidence from the Netherlands

Acemoglu, Daron; Koster, Hans R.A.; 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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Creativity and the family tree: Human capital endowments and the propensity of entrepreneurs to patent

Link, Albert N.; Ruhm, Christopher J. - 2011

In this paper we show that the patenting behavior of creative entrepreneurs is correlated with the patenting behavior of their fathers, which we refer to as a source of the entrepreneurs' human capital endowments. Our argument for this relationship follows from established theories of...

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Creativity and the Family Tree: Human Capital Endowments and the Propensity of Entrepreneurs to Patent

Link, Albert N.; Ruhm, Christopher J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

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Minimum Wages and On-the-Job Training

Acemoglu, Daron; Pischke, Jörn-Steffen - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2001

Becker’s theory of human capital predicts that minimum wages should reduce training investments for affected workers because they prevent these workers from taking wage cuts necessary to finance training. In contrast, in noncompetitive labor markets, minimum wages tend to increase training of...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005566408

Technology Transfer in a Global Economy

Audretsch, David B. - 2012

of Central Florida in Regional Economic Development -- The impact of technological acquisitions on innovation and quality … property rights in the biotechnology industry -- External technology supply and client-side innovation -- The Enrolment in an R … regional characteristics on the relationship between university resources and knowledge-based startup's performance -- Learning …

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Essays in Public Sector Entrepreneurship

Audretsch, David B. (ed.); Link, Albert N. (ed.) - 2016 - 1st ed. 2016

Chapter 1 Introduction -- Chapter 2 Motivating Entrepreneurship and Innovation Activity -- Chapter 3 Publicly Funded … Principal Investigators as Transformative Agents of Public Sector Entrepreneurship -- Chapter 4 An Innovation Policy Framework … -- Chapter 5 Radical and Incremental Innovation and the Role of University Scientist. …

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