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This paper examines the extent to which aggregate-level de-routinization can be attributed to firm-level technology adoption during the most recent technological expansion. We use administrative data and a novel firm survey to distinguish frontier technologies from older technologies. We find...
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An arms race for an artificial general intelligence (AGI) would be detrimental for and even pose an existential threat to humanity if it results in an unfriendly AGI. In this paper an all-pay contest model is developed to derive implications for public policy to avoid such an outcome. It is...
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drivers of labour productivity in selected OECD countries and their impact on enhanced productivity performance. The report is … divided into three major parts. The first part will provide a general review of international labour productivity and income … growth rates and levels in OECD countries. The second section presents some general lessons from the productivity performance …
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develop a methodology to separately account for robots in the total capital stock. Increases in upstream, forward GVC …
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This paper reviews policies to strengthen Germany’s productivity growth and prepare for changes in labour markets … reformed for the future of work. Germany enjoys a relatively high labour productivity level but productivity growth has been … modest in recent years. There is room to boost productivity growth by accelerating the diffusion of new technologies …
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robots, and a productivity-enhancing reallocation of labor across firms, away from non-adopters, and toward adopters. … manufacturing firms over a 27-year period (1990-2016). We focus on three central questions: (1) Which firms adopt robots? (2) What …-ante larger and more productive firms are more likely to adopt robots, while ex-ante more skill-intensive firms are less likely to …
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This monograph, which has been prepared as a Research Report to the New Zealand (New Zealand) Treasury, undertakes three main tasks: (1) describing the various forms of tangible and intangible human capital, their relationship to "capabilities" affecting human well-being, and the channels...
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China is well-placed to avoid the so-called “middle-income trap” and to continue to converge towards the more advanced economies, even though growth is likely to slow from near double-digit rates in the first decade of this millennium to around 7% at the 2020 horizon. However, in order to...
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This monograph, which has been prepared as a Research Report to the New Zealand (New Zealand) Treasury, undertakes three main tasks: (1) describing the various forms of tangible and intangible human capital, their relationship to "capabilities" affecting human well-being, and the channels...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005176925
concern is whether labor can win a 'race against the robots' and the longer-term concern is whether an artificial general …
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