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On Average Establishment Size Across Sectors and Countriesy
Bento, Pedro - 2018
endogenous firm entry, firm-level productivity, and sectoral employment shares. We find that observed measures of misallocation …
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Service Offshoring and Productivity : Evidence from the United States
Amiti, Mary; Amiti, Mary; Wei, Shang-Jin - 2021
paper estimates the effects of offshoring on productivity in US manufacturing industries between 1992 and 2000. It finds … that service offshoring has a significant positive effect on productivity in the US, accounting for around 10 percent of … labor productivity growth during this period. Offshoring material inputs also has a positive effect on productivity, but the …
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The Geography of Trade and Technology Shocks in the United States
Autor, David H. - 2013
This paper explores the geographic overlap of trade and technology shocks across local labor markets in the United States. Regional exposure to technological change, as measured by specialization in routine task-intensive production and clerical occupations, is largely uncorrelated with regional...
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Recent Flattening in the Higher Education Wage Premium : Polarization, Skill Downgrading, or Both?
Valletta, Robert G. - 2016
Wage gaps between workers with a college or graduate degree and those with only a high school degree rose rapidly in the United States during the 1980s. Since then, the rate of growth in these wage gaps has progressively slowed, and though the gaps remain large, they were essentially unchanged...
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Polanyi's Paradox and the Shape of Employment Growth
Autor, David H. - 2014
In 1966, the philosopher Michael Polanyi observed, "We can know more than we can tell... The skill of a driver cannot be replaced by a thorough schooling in the theory of the motorcar; the knowledge I have of my own body differs altogether from the knowledge of its physiology." Polanyi's...
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Robots are Us : Some Economics of Human Replacement
Benzell, Seth - 2015
Will smart machines do to humans what the internal combustion engine did to horses – make them obsolete? If so, can putting people out of work or, at least, good work leave them unable to buy what smart machines produce? Our model's answer is yes. Over time and under the right conditions,...
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Toward an Understanding of the Economics of Apologies : Evidence from a Large-Scale Natural Field Experiment
Halperin, Basil - 2019
We use a theory of apologies to design a nationwide field experiment involving 1.5 million Uber ridesharing consumers who experienced late rides. Several insights emerge from our field experiment. First, apologies are not a panacea: the efficacy of an apology and whether it may backfire depend...
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The Service Sector as India's Road to Economic Growth
Eichengreen, Barry - 2011
While India is distinctive among developing countries for its fast-growing service sector, sceptics have raised doubts about the quality and sustainability of this service-sector growth and its implications for economic development. We show, consistent with the views of the sceptics, that while...
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Understanding Long-Run Price Dispersion
Crucini, Mario J. - 2013
We use a unique panel of retail prices spanning 123 cities in 79 countries from 1990 to 2005, to uncover six novel properties of long-run international price dispersion. First, at the PPP level, virtually all (91.6%) of price dispersion is attributed to service-sector wages, consistent with a...
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A Sorted Tale of Globalization : White Collar Jobs and the Rise of Service Offshoring
Liu, Runjuan - 2013
We study how the rise of trade in services with China and India has impacted U.S. labour markets. The topic has two understudied aspects: it deals with service trade (most studies deal with manufacturing trade) and it examines the historical first of U.S. workers competing with educated but...
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