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Consequences of Employment Protection? The Case of the Americans with Disabilities Act
Acemoglu, Daron - 1998
The Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA) requires employers to accommodate disabled workers and outlaws discrimination against the disabled in hiring, firing, and pay. Although the ADA was meant to increase employment of the disabled, it also increases costs for employers. The net theoretical...
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AI and Jobs : Evidence from Online Vacancies
Acemoglu, Daron; Autor, David H.; Hazell, Jonathon; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022 - Revised February 2022
We study the impact of AI on labor markets, using establishment level data on vacancies with detailed occupational information comprising the near-universe of online vacancies in the US from 2010 onwards. We classify establishments as "AI exposed" when their workers engage in tasks that are...
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Artificial Intelligence, Automation and Work
Acemoglu, Daron - 2018
We summarize a framework for the study of the implications of automation and AI on the demand for labor, wages, and … in tasks that it used to perform. This displacement effect tends to reduce the demand for labor and wages. But it is … effects are incomplete. Even when they are strong, automation in- creases output per worker more than wages and reduce the …
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Equalizing Superstars : The Internet and the Democratization of Education
Acemoglu, Daron - 2014
the marginal product and wages of lower-skill teachers …
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