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Return of the Solow Paradox? IT, Productivity, and Employment in U.S. Manufacturing
Acemoglu, Daron; Autor, David; Dorn, David; Hanson, … - 2014
rapidly raising productivity while making workers redundant. This paper explores the evidence for this view among the IT …-using U.S. manufacturing industries. There is some limited support for more rapid productivity growth in IT … expectations, is that output contracts in IT-intensive industries relative to the rest of manufacturing. Productivity increases …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010333318
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The Wrong Kind of AI? Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Labor Demand
Acemoglu, Daron; Restrepo, Pascual - 2019
labor demand, declining labor share in national income, rising inequality and lower productivity growth. The current …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012005993
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Automation and New Tasks: How Technology Displaces and Reinstates Labor
Acemoglu, Daron; Restrepo, Pascual - 2019
productivity. The effects of automation are counterbalanced by the creation of new tasks in which labor has a comparative advantage …, especially in manufacturing, a weaker reinstatement effect, and slower growth of productivity than in previous decades. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012005994
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014296741
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Return of the Solow Paradox? IT, Productivity, and Employment in U.S. Manufacturing
Acemoglu, Daron; Autor, David; Dorn, David; Hanson, … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
rapidly raising productivity while making workers redundant. This paper explores the evidence for this view among the IT …-using U.S. manufacturing industries. There is some limited support for more rapid productivity growth in IT … expectations, is that output contracts in IT-intensive industries relative to the rest of manufacturing. Productivity increases …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010961044
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(Successful) Democracies Breed Their Own Support
Acemoglu, Daron; Ajzenman, Nicolas; Aksoy, Cevat Giray; … - 2021
Using large-scale survey data covering more than 110 countries and exploiting within-country variation across cohorts and surveys, we show that individuals with longer exposure to democracy display stronger support for democratic institutions. We bolster these baseline findings using an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012658270
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Persistence of civil wars
Acemoglu, Daron; Ticchi, Davide; Vindigni, Andrea - 2009
A notable feature of post-World War II civil wars is their very long average duration. We provide a theory of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271578