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COVID-19 and the adoption of technologies in various sectors of the economy, ranging from health care facilities to …
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unforeseen pandemic crisis? The study confronts this question here by developing an exploratory research of how the technology … plays a critical role to cope with pandemic crisis. A main technology in the presence of respiratory disorders generated by … and skilled human resources, and especially investing in high equipment of new medical technology that can reduce negative …
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robots, and a productivity-enhancing reallocation of labor across firms, away from non-adopters, and toward adopters. …We study the implications of robot adoption at the level of individual firms using a rich panel data-set of Spanish … manufacturing firms over a 27-year period (1990-2016). We focus on three central questions: (1) Which firms adopt robots? (2) What …
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this paper, we examine the potential effect of the rise of robotic technology on health. The results of the analysis … suggest that higher penetration of industrial robots in the local labor market is positively related to the health of the low … of low-skilled individuals reporting poor health. Further analysis suggests that reallocation of tasks and reduction in …
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New processes significantly affect firms and workers; however, due to a lack of quantitative indicators, our … of process innovation and that smaller firms are more likely to introduce new processes and are better able to transform … them into higher output. All five process innovation outputs are associated with higher labor productivity and higher sales …
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research design focuses on a technology subsidy program in Finland that induced sharp increases in technology investment in … manufacturing firms. Our data directly measure multiple technologies and skills and track firms and workers over time. We … product. We document that firms used new technologies to produce new types of output rather than replace workers with …
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This paper examines the impact of unbalanced (skill-biased) technical change on the labor market and economic growth …. It argues that when the gap between the technology of skilled and unskilled workers increases, it becomes harder to … the long run, the economy converges to a steady state with a balanced growth of the technology of the two groups. The …
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created. In a static version where capital is fixed and technology is exogenous, automation reduces employment and the labor …We examine the concerns that new technologies will render labor redundant in a framework in which tasks previously … performed by labor can be automated and new versions of existing tasks, in which labor has a comparative advantage, can be …
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To rationalize a substantial income share of labor despite progressive task automation over the centuries, we present a … the growth path. This is why labor keeps up a substantial fraction of income. Real capital, however, that is capital … measured in units of the quality of some base year, becomes abundant relative to labor. While our model features an entirely …
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side. I consider two channels through which technology affects inequality: the skill that an agent can supply in the labor …
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