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firms. These results suggest a net positive employment impact of automation, at least in the short run. The findings differ …Using the World Bank's Enterprise Survey for the Philippines, our analysis found that, on average, firms that deployed … partial or full automation in their operations were more likely to hire more workers than fewer relative to their counterpart …
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This article discusses the evolution of key labour market indicators in the EU-27 countries between 2019 and 2020, i.e. between the year before the covid-19 crisis broke out and the year in which it impacted the economy heavily. Whereas earlier policy-oriented studies have dealt with the...
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The present paper estimates and decomposes the employment effect of innovation by R&D intensity levels. Our micro …&D investment and firm employment, and to address important econometric issues, which is not possible in the standard estimation … innovation by 1% may increase employment up to 0.7%. The job creation effect of innovation reaches its peak when R&D intensity is …
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The present paper estimates and decomposes the employment effect of innovation by R&D intensity levels. Our micro … the R&D investment and firm employment, and to address important econometric issues, which is not possible in the standard …: increasing innovation by 1% may increase employment up to 0.7%. The job creation effect of innovation reaches its peak when the R …
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Development economists generally concur that the implications of economic reform for employment are influenced by an … shaped the impact of unanticipated economic reforms on employment in formal manufacturing firms in India in the 1990s, using … average and ceteris paribus in the 1990-1997 period, declines in input tariffs were associated with increased employment in …
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population and how they are shaping the composition of labor markets. Exploiting exogenous variation in robot exposure across … contributes to the decline in the gender employment gap but increases the race and ethnicity employment gap. This finding follows …
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Do investment programs create more jobs in tight or in slack labor markets? We study this question using data from a large, long-term photovoltaic invest scheme in Germany. Comparing counties with high and low unemployment both over time and across space, we find that photovoltaic installations...
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Does the adoption of technological change depend on labor market institutions? The disparities in technology adoption … across countries are enormous and are a major factor in explaining poverty. The returns to introducing new technology differ …. Wage compression through unions and minimum wage laws indirectly induce investment into technology. The employer is …
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) have been used as a means to fight high unemployment. This paper discusses the mechanisms through which ALMPs affect (un)employment … participation; (iii) subsidised employment seems to cause displacement of regular employment, whereas this appears not to be the …) in the 1990s, training programmes seem not to have enhanced the employment probabilities of participants, whereas some …
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