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Editor's Overview
Sharpe, Andrew - In: International Productivity Monitor 4 (2002) Spring, pp. 1-2
The fourth issue of the International Productivity Monitor produced by the Centre for the Study of Living Standards contains five articles. Topics covered are: recent productivity developments in the United States and Canada and implications for the Canada-U.S. productivity and income gaps; the...
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An Analysis of the Canada-U.S. ICT Investment Gap: An Update to 2013
Thomas, Jasmin - Center for the Study of Living Standards (CSLS) - 2015
&D and information and communications technology (ICT) investment. The objective of this report is to examine the country …
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The complementary effect of organizational practices and workers' level of education
Pusterla, Filippo - 2020
workers' level of education. Using rm-level panel data covering the period 2002 to 2008, I estimate complementarities among … workers' level of education and a large set of organizational practices aggregated into three domains: decentralization … education: no post-compulsory education, upper-secondary vocational education and train- ing, tertiary vocational education, and …
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The race of man and machine: implications of technology when abilities and demand constraints matter
Gries, Thomas; Naudé, Wim - 2021
In "The Race between Man and Machine: Implications of Technology for Growth, Factor Shares, and Employment," Acemoglu …
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Artificial intelligence, income distribution and economic growth
Gries, Thomas; Naudé, Wim - 2020
demand and slow down GDP growth, even in the face of the positive technology shock that AI entails. If the elasticity of …
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Artificial intelligence, jobs, inequality and productivity : does aggregate demand matter?
Gries, Thomas; Naudé, Wim - 2018
Rapid technological progress in artificial intelligence (AI) has been predicted to lead to mass unemployment, rising inequality, and higher productivity growth through automation. In this paper we critically re-assess these predictions by (i) surveying the recent literature and (ii)...
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Demographics and automation
Acemoglu, Daron; Restrepo, Pascual - 2018
further predicts that the induced adoption of automation technology should be more pronounced in industries that rely more on … aging are ambiguous when technology responds to demographic change, but we should expect productivity to increase and labor …
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Robots and firms
Koch, Michael; Manuylov, Ilya; Smolka, Marcel - 2019
literature to formalize the implications of robot technology. As for the first question, we establish robust evidence that ex …
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Has Trend Productivity Growth Increased in Canada?
Robidoux, Benoît; Wong, Bing-Sun - In: International Productivity Monitor 6 (2003) Spring, pp. 47-55
Trend productivity growth is a crucial determinant of future living standards as well as fiscal balances. In this article, Benoit Robidoux and Bing-Sun Wong from Finance Canada examine the issue of whether trend productivity growth has increased in Canada and conclude that in fact it has. If...
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The Roots of the New Economy: An Institutional Perspective
Petit, Pascal - In: International Productivity Monitor 4 (2002) Spring, pp. 39-54
The factors behind the emergence of the New Economy are still poorly understood. In this article, Pascal Petit from CEPREMAP and CNRS in France provides an institutional perspective on the developmental phases or roots of this New Economy. He analyzes the structural, institutional and...
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