. Compared to other firms operating in the same 5-digit sector, robot importers are larger, more productive, and employ a higher … share of managers and engineers. Over time, robot import occurs after periods of expansion in firm size, and is followed by … identify the causal effects of robot adoption. Our results suggest that, while demand shocks generate a positive correlation …

We analyse the impact of robot adoption on employment composition using novel micro data on robot use in German … adapting to change. An event-study analysis of robot adoption confirms both predictions. We do not find adverse employment …

show that technological investments have the greatest positive impact on the growth of labour productivity and on a decline … productivity growth in high-technology enterprises, but at the same time, the technological investments have an impact on the …

Linked employer-employee data from New Zealand is used to study the relationship between a firm's productivity growth … relationship between productivity growth and hiring is compared to the predictions implied by two different channels: worker … quality and knowledge spillover. Although it is not possible to identify a causal relationship, the productivity of a worker …

We study the impact of broadband availability on firms’ total factor productivity (TFP) using German firm-level data … between 2010 and 2015. We adopt a control function approach to causally identify and separately estimate productivity for 46 … firms’ productivity in manufacturing, it significantly increases TFP in most service sectors. Yet, the size of the effect is …

paper sheds new light on the labour productivity premium from adopting digital technologies and boosting digital skill use …. The productivity premium is decomposed into a direct effect benefitting the firms actually increasing their digital … intensity, and an indirect effect of belonging to a sector with high digital intensity. The firm-level productivity premium of …

artificial intelligence seem to offer a vast potential to boost productivity and living standards. However, aggregate … productivity growth has declined sharply across the OECD over the past decades. Estonia is no exception, though it is well placed … digital infrastructure and world-leading e-government services. Turning this potential into a productivity boost necessitates …