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Productivity and Wages : What Was the Productivity-Wage Link in the Digital Revolution of the Past, and What Might Occur in the AI Revolution of the Future?
Lazear, Edward P.; Shaw, Kathryn; Hayes, Grant E.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Wages have been spreading out across workers over time - or in other words, the 90th/50th wage ratio has risen over … calculations of productivity by skill level for the U.S., we show that the distributions of both wages and productivity have spread … exists, such that gains in aggregate productivity, or GDP per person, have resulted in higher wages for workers at the top …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013477226
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Education, skill training, and lifelong learning in the era of technological revolution
Kim, Jinyoung; Park, Cyn-Young - 2020
Rapid technological development makes skills depreciate faster than in the past while new technologies generate gaps in workers’ skills and call for the acquisition of proper skills and lifelong learning. Proper skill mixes for future jobs include strong cognitive skills, basic information and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012152551
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Education, Skill Training, and Lifelong Learning in the Era of Technological Revolution
Park, Cyn-Young; Kim, Jinyoung - 2020
Rapid technological development makes skills depreciate faster than in the past while new technologies generate gaps in workers’ skills and call for the acquisition of proper skills and lifelong learning. Proper skill mixes for future jobs include strong cognitive skills, basic information and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014098548
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Gender roles and medical progress
Albanesi, Stefania; Olivetti, Claudia - 2015
Maternal mortality was the second-leading cause of death for women in childbearing years up until the mid-1930s in the United States. For each death, twenty times as many mothers were estimated to suffer pregnancy-related conditions, often leading to severe and prolonged disablement. Poor...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010500671
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Gender Roles and Medical Progress
Albanesi, Stefania - 2016
Maternal mortality was the second-leading cause of death for women in childbearing years up until the mid-1930s in the United States. For each death, twenty times as many mothers were estimated to suffer pregnancy-related conditions, often leading to severe and prolonged disablement. Poor...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013003978
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Gender Roles and Medical Progress
Albanesi, Stefania - 2015
Maternal mortality was the second-leading cause of death for women in childbearing years up until the mid-1930s in the United States. For each death, twenty times as many mothers were estimated to suffer pregnancy-related conditions, often leading to severe and prolonged disablement. Poor...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013025186
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The Digital Transformation of Labor : Automation, the Gig Economy and Welfare
Larsson, Anthony - 2020
Through a series of studies, the overarching aim of this book is to investigate if and how the digitalization/digital transformation process causes (or may cause) the autonomy of various labor functions, and its impact in creating (or stymieing) various job opportunities on the labor market....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012846158
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Essays in AI : Technology, Automation and the Future of 9-5 Work
Krook, Joshua - 2017
Robots, artificial intelligence and automation are going to fundamentally change the way we work, play and live in the 21st Century. Or will they? In this provocative new book, Krook questions the dominant ideology that automation and A.I. will make our lives easier and give us more freedom than...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014119362
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Space, search and efficiency
Wasmer, Etienne; Zenou, Yves - 2000
distortions in the transport market. In absence of these distortions and despite spatial terms in wages, the standard condition …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001510628
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Space, search and efficiency
Wasmer, Etienne; Zenou, Yves - 2000
distortions in the transport market. In absence of these distortions and despite spatial terms in wages, the standard condition …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011336862