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This paper estimates the role of country-variety comparative advantage in the decision to offshore assembly of more than 2000 models of 197 car brands headquartered in 23 countries. While offshoring in the car industry has risen from 2000 to 2016, the top five offshoring brands account for half...
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the same task may be relatively expert in one occupation and inexpert in another, automation can simultaneously replace … that predicts that changing occupational expertise requirements have countervailing wage and employment effects: automation … that decreases expertise requirements reduces wages but permits the entry of less expert workers; automation that raises …
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We propose a sufficient statistic for designing AI information-disclosure and selective automation policies. The … while fully disclosing the AI prediction. Although automation is valuable, the benefit of assisting humans with AI is …
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created. In a static version where capital is fixed and technology is exogenous, automation reduces employment and the labor … capital accumulation and the direction of research towards automation and the creation of new tasks. If the long-run rental … rate of capital relative to the wage is sufficiently low, the long-run equilibrium involves automation of all tasks …
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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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control (CNC), an important type of flexible automation which can significantly increase productivity, product variety and …
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We provide an argument for long-term automation and decline in the labor income share, driven by capital accumulation … rescaled in the same way. Then ongoing capital accumulation gives rise to progressive automation, and the share of labor income …
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changes in particular, automation that displaces workers from tasks they used to perform, and the creation of new tasks that … that automation: (i) powerfully impacts inequality; (ii) can reduce real wages; and (iii) can generate realistic changes in …-level estimates of displacement driven by automation and reinstatement due to new tasks, we show that displacement is associated with …
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Globalization and robotics (globotics) are transforming the world economy at an explosive pace. While much of the literature has focused on rich nations, the changes are quite likely to affect developing nations in important ways. The premise of the paper - which should be regarded as a...
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expand their overall employment as well. However, this expansion comes at the expense of their competitors (as automation …
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