Recent evidence for the U.S. suggests that recessions play a crucial role in promoting automation and the reallocation … of productive resources, which in turn increase aggregate productivity and lead to a higher standard of living. I present … technology revolution, fully all of the Canadian decline in routine job employment occurred during the three recessions. A …

Recent evidence suggests that recessions play a crucial role in promoting automation and the reallocation of productive … resources. Consistent with this, I show that in the three previous Canadian recessions, routine jobs were disproportionately …, income groups, industries, and regions, the two indices are strongly negatively correlated, suggesting that automation will …

To examine the drivers of innovation, this paper studies the global R&D effort to fight the deadliest diseases and … innovation can be very large, as demonstrated by aggregate flow of clinical trials increasing by 38% in 2020, with limited … economists are naturally in favor of market size as a driving force for innovation (i.e."if the market size is sufficiently large …

To examine the drivers of innovation, this paper studies the global R&D effort to fight the deadliest diseases and … innovation can be very large, as demonstrated by aggregate flow of clinical trials increasing by 38% in 2020, with limited … economists are naturally in favor of market size as a driving force for innovation (i.e."if the market size is sufficiently large …

In recent US recessions, employment losses have been much larger for men than for women. Yet, in the current recession …

. Whereas recent recessions in advanced economies usually had a disproportionate impact on men's employment, giving rise to the … childcare and experienced greater productivity reductions than men. We discuss what our findings imply for gender equality in a …

than good due to the economic contraction, despite a large literature that finds mortality rates decline during recessions …