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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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Labor Market Institutions, Wages, and Investment
Pischke, Jörn-Steffen - 2004
Labor market institutions, via their effect on the wage structure, affect the investment decisions of firms in labor …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262019
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Labor Market Institutions, Wages, and Investment
Pischke, Jörn-Steffen - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004
Labor market institutions, via their effect on the wage structure, affect the investment decisions of firms in labor …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005566412
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An empirical model of growth through product innovation
Lentz, Rasmus; Mortensen, Dale T. - 2005
Productivity dispersion across firms is large and persistent, and worker reallocation among firms is an important … source of productivity growth. The purpose of the paper is to estimate the structure of an equilibrium model of growth … through innovation that explains these facts. The model is a modified version of the Schumpeterian theory of firm evolution …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267364
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The UK's Productivity Puzzle
Bryson, Alex; Forth, John - 2015
unemployment response; and the very slow rate of recovery. We review the literature which finds most of the decline in productivity … intensification but employers appeared incapable of turning this effort into improved workplace level productivity. Widespread pay …: this has had no discernible impact on the rate of innovation. There is no impact of recession on either the number of HRM …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011288222
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Does Electricity Drive Structural Transformation? Evidence from the United States
Gaggl, Paul; Gray, Rowena; Marinescu, Ioana E.; Morin, … - 2020
Electricity is a general purpose technology and the catalyst for the second industrial revolution. What was its impact on the structure of employment? We use U.S. Census data from 1910 to 1940 and measure electrification with the length of higher-voltage electricity lines. Instrumenting for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012269921
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Inequality and specialization: the growth of low-skill service jobs in the United States
Autor, David H.; Dorn, David - 2009
After a decade in which wages and employment fell precipitously in low-skill occupations and expanded in high-skill occupations, the shape of U.S. earnings and job growth sharply polarized in the 1990s. Employment shares and relative earnings rose in both low and high-skill jobs, leading to a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271316
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The growth of low skill service jobs and the polarization of the US labor market
Autor, David H.; Dorn, David - 2012
We offer an integrated explanation and empirical analysis of the polarization of U.S. employment and wages between 1980 and 2005, and the concurrent growth of low skill service occupations. We attribute polarization to the interaction between consumer preferences, which favor variety over...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010291446
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Inequality and Specialization: The Growth of Low-Skill Service Jobs in the United States
Autor, David; Dorn, David - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
After a decade in which wages and employment fell precipitously in low-skill occupations and expanded in high-skill occupations, the shape of U.S. earnings and job growth sharply polarized in the 1990s. Employment shares and relative earnings rose in both low and high-skill jobs, leading to a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005039640
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The Growth of Low Skill Service Jobs and the Polarization of the U.S. Labor Market
Autor, David; Dorn, David - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
We offer an integrated explanation and empirical analysis of the polarization of U.S. employment and wages between 1980 and 2005, and the concurrent growth of low skill service occupations. We attribute polarization to the interaction between consumer preferences, which favor variety over...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011079230