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Automation and new tasks : how technology displaces and reinstates labor
Acemoglu, Daron; Restrepo, Pascual - 2019
We present a framework for understanding the effects of automation and other types of technological changes on labor demand, and use it to interpret changes in US employment over the recent past. At the center of our framework is the allocation of tasks to capital and labor - the task content of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012001461
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Technology and Labor Displacement : Evidence from Linking Patents with Worker-Level Data
Kogan, Leonid; Papanikolaou, Dimitris; Schmidt, Lawrence; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
We develop measures of labor-saving and labor-augmenting technology exposure using textual analysis of patents and job tasks. Using US administrative data, we show that both measures negatively predict earnings growth of individual incumbent workers. While labor-saving technologies predict...
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The role of innovation in employment growth, skill demand, and wages : evidence from Ecuador
Rochina Barrachina, María E.; Rodríguez-Moreno, Jorge … - In: Latin American economic review : LAER ; official … 32 (2023), pp. 1-30
tools for increasing employment in Ecuador. Moreover, product innovation favors high-skilled over low-skilled work- ers …This study's main objective is assessing the effects of innovation on firms' employment growth. Further, we aimed to … innovation were considered-namely, product, process, organizational, and marketing. This is the first study to evaluate the role …
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Automation and New Tasks : How Technology Displaces and Reinstates Labor
Acemoglu, Daron - 2019
We present a framework for understanding the effects of automation and other types of technological changes on labor demand, and use it to interpret changes in US employment over the recent past. At the center of our framework is the allocation of tasks to capital and labor – the task content...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012870190
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Digital technologies, employment and skills
Reljic, Jelena; Evangelista, Rinaldo; Pianta, Mario - 2019
The diffusion of digital technologies and their impact on employment and skills is investigated inthis article considering six major European countries (Germany, France, Spain, Italy, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom) and 42 manufacturing and service industriesover the 2009-2014 period. We...
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Entrepreneurs and their impact on jobs and economic growth : productive entrepreneurs can invigorate the economy by creating jobs and new technologies, and increasing productivity
Kritikos, Alexander - 2014
Entrepreneurs, creators of new firms, are a rare species. Even in innovation-driven economies, only 1-2% of the work … environment is receptive to innovation. In addition, policymakers need to prepare for the potential job losses that can occur in …
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Automation and labor demand in European countries : a task-based approach to wage bill decomposition
Lábaj, Martin; Vitáloš, Matej - 2019
To understand the effects of automation and other types of technological changes on European labor demand, we use a framework and empirical decomposition of observed changes in the total wage bill in the economy developed by Acemoglu and Restrepo (2019). The decomposition is derived from a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012129199
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Automation and new tasks : how technology displaces and reinstates labor
Acemoglu, Daron; Restrepo, Pascual - 2019
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012028457
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The race between machine and man : implications of technology for growth, factor shares and employment
Acemoglu, Daron; Restrepo, Pascual - 2016
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 created. In a static version where capital is fixed and...
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Broadband internet availability and establishments' employment growth in Germany : evidence from instrumental variables estimations
Stockinger, Bastian - In: Journal for labour market research 53 (2019) 7, pp. 1-23
This study investigates the effect of broadband internet availability on German establishments’ employment growth. The database used is a random sample of business establishments, augmented by the local availability of broadband. The observation period is 2005–2010, when broadband was...
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