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Does Innovation Stimulate Employment? A Firm-Level Analysis Using Comparable Micro-Data from Four European Countries
Harrison, Rupert - 2014
This paper studies the impact of process and product innovations introduced by firms on employment growth in these firms. A simple model that relates employment growth to process innovations and to the growth of sales separately due to innovative and unchanged products is developed and estimated...
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Fear of Service Outsourcing : Is it Justified?
Amiti, Mary; Wei, Shang-Jin - 2022
The recent media and political attention on service outsourcing from developed to developing countries gives the … impression that outsourcing is exploding. As a result, workers in industrial countries are anxious about job losses. This paper … aims to establish what are the hypes and what are the facts. The results show that although service outsourcing has been …
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The Industrial Revolution in Services
Hsieh, Chang-Tai - 2019
The rise in national industry concentration in the US between 1977 and 2013 is driven by a new industrial revolution in three broad non-traded sectors: services, retail, and wholesale. Sectors where national concentration is rising have increased their share of employment, and the expansion is...
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The Service Industries and U.S. Economic Growth Since World War Ii
Fuchs, Victor R. - 2021
During the past 15 years employment and current dollar gross product continued to shift to the Service sector at about the same rate as in the early post-World War II period, while the Service sector's share of gross product in constant dollars remained relatively constant. Productivity (as...
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Covid-19 Doesn't Need Lockdowns to Destroy Jobs : The Effect of Local Outbreaks in Korea
Aum, Sangmin - 2020
Unlike most countries, Korea did not implement a lockdown in its battle against COVID-19, instead successfully relying on testing and contact tracing. Only one region, Daegu-Gyeongbuk (DG), had a significant number of infections, traced to a religious sect. This allows us to estimate the causal...
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Trade and Worker Deskilling
Costa, Rui - 2019
This paper presents new evidence on international trade and worker outcomes. It examines a big world event that produced an unprecedentedly large shock to the UK exchange rate. In the 24 hours in June 2016 during which the UK electorate unexpectedly voted to leave the European Union, the value...
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The Causal Effects of an Industrial Policy
Criscuolo, Chiara - 2014
Business support policies designed to raise productivity and employment are common worldwide, but rigorous micro-econometric evaluation of their causal effects is rare. We exploit multiple changes in the area-specific eligibility criteria for a major program to support manufacturing jobs...
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Financial Frictions and Employment During the Great Depression
Benmelech, Efraim; Frydman, Carola; Papanikolaou, Dimitris - 2021
We provide new evidence that a disruption in credit supply played a quantitatively significant role in the unprecedented contraction of employment during the Great Depression. To analyze the role of financing frictions in firms' employment decisions, we use a novel, hand-collected dataset of...
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What Causes Industry Agglomeration? Evidence from Coagglomeration Patterns
Ellison, Glenn - 2010
Many industries are geographically concentrated. Many mechanisms that could account for such agglomeration have been proposed. We note that these theories make different predictions about which pairs of industries should be coagglomerated. We discuss the measurement of coagglomeration and use...
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Modern Management : Good for the Environment or Just Hot Air?
Bloom, Nicholas - 2014
We use an innovative methodology to measure management practices in over 300 manufacturing firms in the UK. We then match this management data to production and energy usage information for establishments owned by these firms. We find that establishments in better managed firms are significantly...
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