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We estimate the effects of robot adoption on firm-level and worker-level outcomes in the Netherlands using a large … value added and hours worked for robot-adopting firms and negative outcomes on competitors in the same industry. Our worker … earnings and employment rates, while other workers indirectly gain from robot adoption. We also find that the negative effects …
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The recent shift to remote work raised the amenity value of employment. As compensation adjusts to share the amenity-value gains with employers, wage-growth pressures moderate. We find empirical support for this mechanism in the wage-setting behavior of U.S. employers, and we develop novel...
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of substitution between capital and labor is greater than one. However, the vast majority of micro-level estimates shows … that capital and labor are complements (elasticity less than one). Using firm- and establishment-level data from Korea, we … divide capital into equipment and software, as they may interact with labor in different ways. Our estimation shows that …
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This paper examines the extent to which changes in working-age shares associated with population aging might slow … structure to project economic growth in 2020-2050. Our results indicate that population aging will slow economic growth …
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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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information technology and the computer age, induced firms to shift away from labor and toward capital. The lower price of … influencing factor shares such as increasing profits, capital-augmenting technology growth, and the changing skill composition of …
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We address three core questions about the hypothesized role of newly emerging job categories ('new work') in counterbalancing the erosive effect of task-displacing automation on labor demand: what is the substantive content of new work; where does it come from; and what effect does it have on...
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Information flows, and thus information technology (IT) are central to the structure of firms and markets. Using data from the U.S. Census Bureau, we provide firm-level evidence that increases in IT intensity are associated with increases in firm size and concentration in both employment and...
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We construct new technology indicators using textual analysis of patent documents and occupation task descriptions that span almost two centuries (1850-2010). At the industry level, improvements in technology are associated with higher labor productivity but a decline in the labor share....
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debate places equal emphasis on the market in showering capital gains through stock options and an arbitrary management power …
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