Narrow search
Showing 1 - 10 of 922
Cover Image
The Characteristics and Geographic Distribution of Robot Hubs in U.S. Manufacturing Establishments
Brynjolfsson, Erik; Buffington, Catherine; Goldschlag, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
We use data from the Annual Survey of Manufactures to study the characteristics and geography of investments in robots across U.S. manufacturing establishments. We find that robotics adoption and robot intensity (the number of robots per employee) is much more strongly related to establishment...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014247984
Cover Image
Global Supply Chains and Wage Inequality
Costinot, Arnaud - 2012
A salient feature of globalization in recent decades is the emergence of "global supply chains" in which different countries specialize in different stages of a sequential production process. In Arnaud Costinot, Jonathan Vogel and Su Wang (2011), CVW hereafter, we have developed a simple theory...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012460683
Cover Image
Growing Like China : Firm Performance and Global Production Line Position
Chor, Davin - 2020
Global value chains have fundamentally transformed international trade and development in recent decades. We use matched firm-level customs and manufacturing survey data, together with Input-Output tables for China, to examine how Chinese firms position themselves in global production lines and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012481098
Cover Image
Technology and Production Fragmentation : Domestic versus Foreign Sourcing
Fort, Teresa C. - 2016
This paper provides direct empirical evidence on the relationship between technology and firms' global sourcing strategies. Using new data on U.S. firms' decisions to contract for manufacturing services from domestic or foreign suppliers, I show that a firm's adoption of communication technology...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012456129
Cover Image
Kill Zone
Kamepalli, Sai Krishna - 2020
We study why high-priced acquisitions of entrants by an incumbent do not necessarily stimulate more innovation and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012481729
Cover Image
Digital Innovation and the Distribution of Income
Guellec, Dominique - 2017
top 1%. In this paper we argue that the growing importance of digital innovation - new products and processes based on … Schumpeter's vision, digital innovation gives rise to "winner-take-all" market structures, characterized by higher market power … digital non-rivalry, which allows for massive economies of scale and reduces costs of innovation. The latter stimulates higher …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012453726
Cover Image
Uneven Growth : Automation's Impact on Income and Wealth Inequality
Moll, Benjamin; Rachel, Lukasz; Restrepo, Pascual - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
The benefits of new technologies accrue not only to high-skilled labor but also to owners of capital in the form of higher capital incomes. This increases inequality. To make this argument, we develop a tractable theory that links technology to the personal income and wealth distributions - and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012482656
Cover Image
Robots Are Us : Some Economics of Human Replacement
Benzell, Seth G. - 2015
Will smart machines replace humans like the internal combustion engine replaced horses? If so, can putting people out of work, or at least out of good work, also put the economy out of business? Our model says yes. Under the right conditions, more supply produces, over time, less demand as the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012457725
Cover Image
Inefficient Automation
Beraja, Martin; Zorzi, Nathan - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
How should the government respond to automation? We study this question in a heterogeneous agent model that takes worker displacement seriously. We recognize that displaced workers face two frictions in practice: reallocation is slow and borrowing is limited. We first show that these frictions...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013334373
Cover Image
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)....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013462707