harmonized cross-country and industry data, where we measure automation as industry-level movements in total factor productivity …-added in the industries in which it originates (a direct effect). In the case of employment, these own-industry losses are … aggregate labor demand because it simultaneously induces four countervailing responses: own-industry output effects; cross-industry …

(iii) robust labor productivity growth in Africa's large firms. Limited employment growth in Africa's large manufacturing … Africa. But employment in African manufacturing has grown rapidly over the past 20 years. These employment gains have been … accompanied by: (i) large increases in the number of small manufacturing firms; (ii) limited employment gains in large firms; and …

U.S. county data for the last 20 or 30 years show that manufacturing employment has been deconcentrating. In contrast …, the service sector exhibits concentration in counties with intermediate levels of employment. This paper presents a theory … where local sectoral growth is driven by technological diffusion across space. The age of an industry -- measured as the …

We rely on a decomposition of employment changes into job creation and job destruction components - and a novel set of … inferences: 1) The data favor a many- shock characterization of fluctuations in employment and job reallocation, 2) Theories of … employment fluctuations that attribute a predominant role to aggregate shocks must in order to fit the data involve …

who have a primary education; it has been accompanied by a systematic increase in the productivity of the labor force, as … it has moved from low productivity agriculture to higher productivity services and manufacturing. We also show that … although the employment share in manufacturing is not expanding rapidly, in most of the low-income African countries, the …

United States by exploiting an industry-city panel data for the years 1880-1930. We estimate decreasing returns to scale on …

sector and the large decline in employment rates and hours worked among prime-aged Americans since 2000. We use cross …-region variation to explore the link between declining manufacturing employment and labor market outcomes. We find that manufacturing … decline in a local area in the 2000s had large and persistent negative effects on local employment rates, hours worked and …

-manufacturing employment growth from 1977-2019. Exploiting data on firms' "auxiliary" establishments, we develop a novel measure of proprietary … in-house knowledge and show that it is associated with increased growth and industry switching. We rationalize this …-house confers a sector-neutral productivity advantage facilitating within-firm structural transformation. Consistent with the model …

substantial negative effects on agricultural productivity and structural change, raising the share of households operating farms … by almost 30 percentage points and depressing agricultural productivity by more than 10 percent. Quantitatively, land …

of climate change on sectoral reallocation and aggregate productivity. First, I use firm-level data from a wide range of … countries to estimate the effect of temperature on productivity in manufacturing and services. Estimates suggest that extreme … heat reduces non-agricultural productivity, but less so than in agriculture, implying that hot countries could adapt to …