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Harrigan, James; Reshef, Ariell; Toubal, Farid - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

-skill intensive and are associated with innovation, as well as with technology adoption, management, and diffusion within firms. Using …

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Artificial Intelligence and the Skill Premium

Bloom, David E.; Prettner, Klaus; Saadaoui, Jamel; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

How will the emergence of ChatGPT and other forms of artificial intelligence (AI) affect the skill premium? To address this question, we propose a nested constant elasticity of substitution production function that distinguishes among three types of capital: traditional physical capital...

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New Technologies and Jobs in Europe

Albanesi, Stefania; Silva, António Dias da; Jimeno, Juan F. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

We examine the link between labour market developments and new technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI) and software in 16 European countries over the period 2011- 2019. Using data for occupations at the 3-digit level in Europe, we find that on average employment shares have increased...

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The Next Wave of Energy Innovation : Which Technologies? Which Skills?

Popp, David; Vona, Francesco; Gregoire-Zawilski, Myriam; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

of low-carbon energy innovation. These include both improvements in physical capital, such as smart grids to aid … document recent trends in energy innovation and discuss the lessons learnt for policy. We then discuss the potential role for … complementary innovation in both physical capital--using smart grids as an example of how policy can help--and human capital, where …

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Technology and the Demand for Skill : An Analysis of Within and Between Firm Differences

Abowd, John M. - 2007

We estimate the effects of technology investments on the demand for skilled workers using longitudinally integrated employer-employee data from the U.S. Census Bureau's Longitudinal Employer-Household Dynamics Program infrastructure files spanning two Economic Censuses (1992 and 1997). We...

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The Rate and Direction of Invention in the British Industrial Revolution : Incentives and Institutions

Meisenzahl, Ralf - 2011

During the Industrial Revolution technological progress and innovation became the main drivers of economic growth. But …

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Global Universal Basic Skills : Current Deficits and Implications for World Development

Gust, Sarah; Hanushek, Eric Alan; Woessmann, Ludger - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

How far is the world away from ensuring that every child obtains the basic skills needed to be internationally competitive? And what would accomplishing this mean for world development? Based on the micro data of international and regional achievement tests, we map achievement onto a common...

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De-skilling : Evidence from Late Nineteenth Century American Manufacturing

Atack, Jeremy; Margo, Robert A.; Rhode, Paul W. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

The long-standing view in US economic history is the shift in manufacturing in the nineteenth century from the artisan shop to the mechanized factory led to "labor deskilling." Craft workers were displaced by mix of semi-skilled operatives, unskilled workers, and a reduced force of mechanics to...

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Generative AI at Work

Brynjolfsson, Erik; Li, Danielle; Raymond, Lindsey R. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

We study the staggered introduction of a generative AI-based conversational assistant using data from 5,179 customer support agents. Access to the tool increases productivity, as measured by issues resolved per hour, by 14 percent on average, with the greatest impact on novice and low-skilled...

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Opening the Black Box : Task and Skill Mix and Productivity Dispersion

Blackwood, G. Jacob; Cunningham, Cindy; Dey, Matthew S.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

An important gap in most empirical studies of establishment-level productivity is the limited information about workers' characteristics and their tasks. Skill-adjusted labor input measures have been shown to be important for aggregate productivity measurement. Moreover, the theoretical...

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