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Acemoglu, Daron; Mühlbach, Nicolaj Søndergaard; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

In 1990, one in five U.S. workers were aged over 50 years whereas today it is one in three. One possible explanation for this is that occupations have become more accommodating to the preferences of older workers. We explore this by constructing an "age-friendliness" index for occupations. We...

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Automation and the Workforce : A Firm-Level View from the 2019 Annual Business Survey

Acemoglu, Daron; Anderson, Gary; Beede, David Nathan; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

This paper describes the adoption of automation technologies by US firms across all economic sectors by leveraging a new module introduced in the 2019 Annual Business Survey, conducted by the US Census Bureau in partnership with the National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics (NCSES)....

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Bottlenecks : Sectoral Imbalances and the US Productivity Slowdown

Acemoglu, Daron; Autor, David H.; Patterson, Christina - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

Despite the rapid pace of innovation in information and communications technologies (ICT) and electronics, aggregate US … stems in part from an unbalanced sectoral distribution of innovation over the last several decades. Because an industry …'s success in innovation depends on complementary innovations among its input suppliers, rapid productivity growth that is …

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Climate Change, Directed Innovation, and Energy Transition : The Long-run Consequences of the Shale Gas Revolution

Acemoglu, Daron; Aghion, Philippe; Barrage, Lint; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

reduces carbon emissions by inducing substitution away from coal. Yet, the natural gas boom discourages innovation directed at …

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