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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 Productivity of Professions : Evidence from the Emergency Department
Chan, David C.; Chen, Yiqun - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
overlapping tasks but with stark differences in background, training, and pay. Using data from the Veterans Health Administration …
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Are Productivity Levels Higher in Some European Countries than in the United States?
Cette, Gilbert - In: International Productivity Monitor 10 (2005) Spring, pp. 59-68
Estimates produced by the OECD indicate that labour productivity levels are higher in a number of European countries than in the United States, implying that Europe and not the United States is the world technological leader. The author argues that a structural measure of labour productivity,...
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Employer learning and the "importance" of skills
Light, Audrey; McGee, Andrew D. - 2012
We ask whether the role of employer learning in the wage-setting process depends on skill type and skill importance to productivity. Combining data from the NLSY79 with O*NET data, we use Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery scores to measure seven distinct types of pre-market skills that...
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Employer learning and the "importance" of skills
Light, Audrey; McGee, Andrew D. - In: Journal of human resources : JHR 50 (2015) 1, pp. 72-107
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Examination of the individual competencies that differentiate results in direct sales
Sypniewska, Barbara A. - In: Contemporary economics 7 (2013) 1, pp. 83-100
development of training programs for sellers. …
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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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Skill development in middle level occupations : the role of apprenticeship training
Lerman, Robert Irving - 2013
training for middle-level occupations. We begin by defining and describing middle-skills occupations, largely in terms of … complementarities. Third, we consider the evidence on the costs and effectiveness of apprenticeship training in several countries. The … final section highlights empirical and policy research results concerning the advantages of apprenticeship training for …
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Schooling supply and the structure of production : evidence from US states 1950―1990
Ciccone, Antonio; Peri, Giovanni - 2013
We find that over the period 1950–1990, states in United States absorbed increases in the supply of schooling due to tighter compulsory schooling and child labor laws mostly through within-industry increases in the schooling intensity of production. Shifts in the industry composition towards...
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Labor shortage and innovation
Horbach, Jens; Rammer, Christian - 2020
Skilled labor is a key input to the innovation process. A shortage in supply of skilled labor may hence impede innovation activities, resulting in lower productivity gains. While governments are concerned about these likely negative impacts, there is only limited empirical evidence whether and...
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