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Demographics and automation
Acemoglu, Daron; Restrepo, Pascual - 2018
We argue theoretically and document empirically that aging leads to greater (industrial) automation, and in particular … older to middle-aged workers — is associated with greater adoption of robots and other automation technologies across … development of automation technologies in countries undergoing greater demographic change. Our directed technological change model …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011820230
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Automation with heterogeneous agents : the effect on consumption inequality
Santini, Tommaso - Leibniz-Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung Halle - 2022 - This version: November 3, 2022
In this paper, I study technological change as a candidate for the observed increase in consumption inequality in the United States. I build an incomplete market model with educational choice combined with a task-based model on the production side. I consider two channels through which...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013460248
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De-routinization in the fourth industrial revolution : firm-level evidence
Arntz, Melanie; Genz, Sabrina; Gregory, Terry; Lehmer, … - 2024
This paper examines the extent to which aggregate-level de-routinization can be attributed to firm-level technology adoption during the most recent technological expansion. We use administrative data and a novel firm survey to distinguish frontier technologies from older technologies. We find...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014468953
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De-routinization in the fourth industrial revolution : firm-level evidence
Arntz, Melanie; Genz, Sabrina; Gregory, Terry; Lehmer, … - 2024
This paper examines the extent to which aggregate-level de-routinization can be attributed to firm-level technology adoption during the most recent technological expansion. We use administrative data and a novel firm survey to distinguish frontier technologies from older technologies. We find...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014462259
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What Happened to U.S. Business Dynamism?
Akcigit, Ufuk - 2019
In the past several decades, the U.S. economy has witnessed a number of striking trends that indicate a rising market concentration and a slowdown in business dynamism. In this paper, we make an attempt to understand potential common forces behind these empirical regularities through the lens of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012861420
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What happened to U.S. business dynamism?
Akcigit, Ufuk; Ates, Sina T. - 2019
In the past several decades, the U.S. economy has witnessed a number of striking trends that indicate a rising market concentration and a slowdown in business dynamism. In this paper, we make an attempt to understand potential common forces behind these empirical regularities through the lens of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012104132
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Information technology and global sourcing
Fromenteau, Philippe - 2016
This paper examines how IT influences global sourcing decisions. It develops a theoretical model to study how IT determines the decisions of firms located in the high-wage North whether to offshore production to a low-wage country in the South. Offshoring to South however is subject to costly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011547846
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Robot adoption at German plants
Deng, Liuchun; Plümpe, Verena; Stegmaier, Jens - 2021 - This draft: January 2021
Using a newly collected dataset of robot use at the plant level from 2014 to 2018, we provide the first microscopic portrait of robotisation in Germany and study the potential determinants of robot adoption. Our descriptive analysis uncovers five stylised facts concerning both extensive and,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012414807
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Seizing the productive potential of digital change in Estonia
Azzopardi, Damien; Lenain, Patrick; Molnár, Margit; … - 2020
Technologies such as cloud computing, software to automate supplier- and customer relations, online platforms and artificial intelligence seem to offer a vast potential to boost productivity and living standards. However, aggregate productivity growth has declined sharply across the OECD over...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012421214
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Robot adoption at German plants
Deng, Liuchun; Plümpe, Verena; Stegmaier, Jens - 2020
Using a newly collected dataset with plant-level information of robot use from 2014 to 2018, we provide the first microscopic portrait of robotisation in Germany and study the potential determinants of robot adoption. Our descriptive analysis uncovers five stylised facts concerning both...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012299358