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In a seminal paper Graetz and Michaels (2018) find that robots increase labor productivity and TFP, lower output prices … industries leads to a sizable drop of the productivity effects, halving the effect size for labor productivity and insignificant … controlling for demographic workforce characteristics is essential for obtaining significant labor productivity effects and leads …
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In a seminal paper Graetz and Michaels (2018) find that robots increase labor productivity and TFP, lower output prices … variables reestablishes the productivity effects, but still rejects positive wage effects and skill-biased technological change …
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In a seminal paper Graetz and Michaels (2018) find that robots increase labor productivity and TFP, lower output prices … workforce variables reestablishes the productivity effects, but still rejects positive wage effects and skill …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012432819
Employment protection affects aggregate productivity via several channels in potentially contradicting ways, which … factors across plants, which has been shown in past studies to substantially reduce aggregate productivity. The study provides … product of labor and total factor productivity. The results show that higher cost of dismissing redundant workers is …
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Using firm-level data for Estonia for the years 1997-2005, we analyze the impact of international competition on firm dynamics, considering both firm closedown and product switching. We contribute to the literature in two important ways: (1) this is the first paper to study the determinants of...
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This paper measures environmental efficiency (EE) and environmental productivity (EP) and analyzes differences in these …
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This paper investigates the drivers of the environmental innovations (EI) introduced by firms in local production systems (LPS). The role of firm network relationships, agglomeration economies and internationalization strategies is analysed for a sample of 555 firms in the Emilia-Romagna region,...
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This paper investigates the drivers of the environmental innovations (EI) introduced by firms in local production systems (LPS). The role of firm network relationships, agglomeration economies and internationalization strategies is analysed for a sample of 555 firms in the Emilia-Romagna region,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013068460
Foresight can be a highly useful tool to address the opportunities and challenges triggered by the next production revolution. As shown by the various country cases considered in this chapter, it facilitates debating and systemic thinking about multiple futures and helps shaping the future...
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Using a large sample of private firms over the period from 2001 to 2013, we study the effect of corruption uncertainty on corporate investments and cash holdings. We find that a higher uncertainty about the level of corruption is associated with lower corporate investments and lower cash...
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