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This paper empirically identifies social learning and neighborhood effects in schooling investments in a new technology regime. The estimates of learning-investment rule from farm household panel data at the onset of the Green Revolution in India, show that (1) agents learn about schooling...
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This paper studies wage effects and job mobility as a result of skill mismatch in worker- occupation pairs. I develop a Roy model in which learning on the job induces workers to shift more time towards job-specific activities. Using a short task panel containing data on worker’s time...
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The paper analyzes the contemporary organizational restructuring of production and work within firms. We emphasize the shift from a "Tayloristicʺ organization of work (characterized by significant specialization by tasks) to a "holisticʺ organization (featuring job rotation, integration of...
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The paper analyzes the contemporary organizational restructuring of production and work within firms. We emphasize the shift from a "Tayloristic" organization of work (characterized by significant specialization by tasks) to a "holistic" organization (featuring job rotation, integration of tasks...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011294704
and older vintages of fixed capital. To restore economic dynamism, Japan must encourage productivity growth. Using panel … quality of labor and capital that influence productivity. Our research contributes three significant findings. (1) The older … the average age of a firm’s employees or the longer their seniority, the higher the firms productivity growth, but it is …
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Medical innovation enhances labor health, promotes human capital productivity, and influences asset prices. Using a … -- a higher medical innovation shock predicts a higher growth of hours worked and total factor productivity, and firms with …
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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
predictions of the theoretical literature on endogenous growth. This literature postulates that total factor productivity (TFP) is …
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