Human capital is indispensable for firms in developing countries to adopt new technologies and improve productivity … experience a larger gain in total factor productivity post-2003 relative to prior years; they also show larger increases in … occupations, and total value-added. The extra productivity gains however are much weaker for domestic private firms than foreign …

Latvia’s productivity growth is held back by weak innovation and inefficient resource allocation. The shortage of … technologies more widely across the economy. Fighting widespread informality, improving the low debt recovery through a more …

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 …

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 …

well as traditional and automation capital (e.g. robots). Robots can substitute for routine labor. We show that both …, population aging and higher robot productivity, foster the increased use of robotics. Population aging decreases and progress in … rise. Although expected advances in automation technologies are able to mitigate or even circumvent output losses in the …

, the International Federation of Robotics, EU KLEMS, and COMTRADE, we study the causal effect of industrial automation on … income inequality in the U.S. during 2010–2015. We exploit spatial and time variations in exposure to robots arising from … for top income fractiles. Therefore, industrial automation fuels income inequality and, particularly, top income …

develop a methodology to separately account for robots in the total capital stock. Increases in upstream, forward GVC …