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Acemoglu, Daron; Restrepo, Pascual - 2018

further predicts that the induced adoption of automation technology should be more pronounced in industries that rely more on … aging are ambiguous when technology responds to demographic change, but we should expect productivity to increase and labor …

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The race against the robots and the fallacy of the giant cheesecake : immediate and imagined impacts of artificial intelligence

Naudé, Wim - 2019

After a number of AI-winters, AI is back with a boom. There are concerns that it will disrupt society. The immediate concern is whether labor can win a 'race against the robots' and the longer-term concern is whether an artificial general intelligence (super-intelligence) can be controlled. This...

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Robots and firms

Koch, Michael; Manuylov, Ilya; Smolka, Marcel - 2019

literature to formalize the implications of robot technology. As for the first question, we establish robust evidence that ex …

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Has ICT Polarized Skill Demand? Evidence from Eleven Countries over Twenty-Five Years

Michaels, Guy; Natraj, Ashwini; Reenen, John Van - In: The Review of Economics and Statistics 96 (2014) 1, pp. 60-77

Massachusetts Institute of Technology …

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Ill Communication: Technology, Distraction & Student Performance

Beland, Louis-Philippe; Murphy, Richard - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2015

This paper investigates the impact of schools banning mobile phones on student test scores. By surveying schools in four English cities regarding their mobile phone policies and combining it with administrative data, we find that student performance in high stakes exams significantly increases...

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Technology and skill-upgrading: Results from linked worker-plant data for Finnish manufacturing

Vainiomäki, Jari - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1999

technology and demand factors. The linked worker-plant data are produced by matching workers in the Employment Statistics … measure for the skill composition of plants’ work force based on education and to obtain average wages for these educational …-production/production breakdown as well as a skill-grouping based on the workers’ education. We apply decomposition techniques and regression analysis …

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Has Trend Productivity Growth Increased in Canada?

Robidoux, Benoît; Wong, Bing-Sun - In: International Productivity Monitor 6 (2003) Spring, pp. 47-55

Trend productivity growth is a crucial determinant of future living standards as well as fiscal balances. In this article, Benoit Robidoux and Bing-Sun Wong from Finance Canada examine the issue of whether trend productivity growth has increased in Canada and conclude that in fact it has. If...

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The giant graduates: China's strive for high-technology

Opper, Sonja - In: CESifo Forum 6 (2005) 3, pp. 43-48

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The Evolution of Inequality in Productivity and Wages: Panel Data Evidence

Faggio, Giulia; Salvanes, Kjell; Reenen, John Van - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2007

There has been a remarkable increase in wage inequality in the US, UK and many other countries over the past three decades. A significant part of this appears to be within observable groups (such as age-gender-skill cells). A generally untested implication of many theories rationalizing the...

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The Roots of the New Economy: An Institutional Perspective

Petit, Pascal - In: International Productivity Monitor 4 (2002) Spring, pp. 39-54

The factors behind the emergence of the New Economy are still poorly understood. In this article, Pascal Petit from CEPREMAP and CNRS in France provides an institutional perspective on the developmental phases or roots of this New Economy. He analyzes the structural, institutional and...

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