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Automation and the Workforce : A Firm-Level View from the 2019 Annual Business Survey
Acemoglu, Daron; Anderson, Gary; Beede, David Nathan; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
This paper describes the adoption of automation technologies by US firms across all economic sectors by leveraging a new module introduced in the 2019 Annual Business Survey, conducted by the US Census Bureau in partnership with the National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics (NCSES)....
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Robots, exports and top income inequality : evidence for the U.S.
César, Andrés; Falcone, Guillermo; Garriga, Pablo - 2022
past differences in industry specialization across U.S. metropolitan areas and the evolution of robot adoption across … inequality. According to our estimates, one more robot per thousand workers results in relative increments of the total taxable …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014466644
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The Decline of Manufacturing in the U.S. Economy : Impacts of China's ‘Trade Shock’, Trump's Protectionist Tariffs, and the Drivers of Manufacturing Job Losses (Presentation Slides...
Wind, Serge L. - 2017
manufacturing jobs and trade deficits of President Reagan's budget deficits in the 1980s and China's recent trade penetration … of China's import penetration, coupled with anemic demand for domestic goods and high productivity gains in American … electronic products industry, representing only 13 percent of total manufacturing value added.China's trade competition …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012962766
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Skill Bias Magnified : Intersectoral Linkages and White-Collar Labor Demand in U.S. Manufacturing
Voigtländer, Nico - 2013
This paper presents a novel stylized fact and analyzes its contribution to the skill bias of technical change in U.S. manufacturing. The share of skilled labor embedded in intermediate inputs correlates strongly with the skill share employed in final production. This finding points towards an...
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Automation, labor share, and productivity : plant-level evidence from U.S. manufacturing
Dinlersoz, Emin Murat; Wolf, Zoltán - 2018
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011973922
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Automation, labor share, and productivity : plant-level evidence from U.S. manufacturing
Dinlersoz, Emin Murat; Wolf, Zoltán - In: Economics of innovation and new technology 33 (2024) 4, pp. 604-626
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Outsourcing, offshoring, and productivity measurement in manufacturing
Houseman, Susan N. (contributor) - 2007 - Rev.
I discuss reasons why manufacturing productivity statistics should be interpreted with caution in light of the recent growth of domestic and foreign outsourcing and offshoring. First, outsourcing and offshoring are poorly measured in U.S. statistics, and poor measurement may impart a significant...
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Manufacturers' outsourcing to employment services
Dey, Matthew (contributor); Houseman, Susan N. (contributor) - 2006
We estimate the effects of manufacturers' use of employment services—comprised primarily of temporary help and professional employer organizations—on measured employment and labor productivity in manufacturing between 1989 and 2004. A major contribution of the paper is the construction of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003430456
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Impact of Globalization on Productivity of U.S. Manufacturing Labor : 1988-2003
Khan, Abdullah M. - 2014
This paper explores the impact of globalization on some determinants of per worker labor productivity in U.S. manufacturing industries. Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs), and trade liberalization are examined as two main drivers of globalization in this study. The estimation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013065252
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Relative Multifactor Productivity Levels in Canada and the United States : A Sectoral Analysis
Baldwin, John R. - 2009
This paper has three main objectives. First, it examines the level of multifactor productivity (MFP) in Canada relative to that of the United States for the 1994-to-2003 period. Second, it examines the relative importance of differences in capital intensity and MFP in accounting for the labour...
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