of more than three million records in China, this study examines the impact of imported industrial robots on firm … factor productivity. Overall, our study provides big data evidence of the unintended positive consequences of industrial …

inequality, and higher productivity growth through automation. In this paper we critically re-assess these predictions by (i … aggregate demand. A second is that the predictions of AI causing massive job losses and faster growth in productivity and GDP … growth and productivity is stagnating and inequality is rising. Our paper provides a theoretical explanation of this in the …

The productivity-enhancing effects of digitalisation have generated increased interest in the promotion of digital … technologies. This report provides different estimations for euro area countries of the impact of digital uptake on productivity at … firm level, showing that the adoption of digital technologies could lead to an increase in firms' productivity in the …

employment growth, but have also led to a crisis in Italian labour productivity growth. Our estimates among 3,000 firms show that …) experienced significantly lower rates of labour productivity growth. Our findings raise doubts about the mainstream call for …

them into higher output. All five process innovation outputs are associated with higher labor productivity and higher sales …

for faster productivity growth, but also a potential disruption to a number of economic sectors and to job markets …

direct investment, imports of productivity-enhancing technology - are petering out, and are yet to be substituted. We propose …