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Freeman, Richard B. (ed.) - 1994

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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 … not yet having detectable aggregate labor market consequences …

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A Century of Work and Leisure

Ramey, Valerie A. - 2006

Has leisure increased over the last century? Standard measures of hours worked suggest that it has. In this paper, we develop a comprehensive measure of non-leisure hours that includes market work, home production, commuting and schooling for the last 105 years. We also present empirical and...

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The Global Decline of the Labor Share

Karabarbounis, Loukas - 2013

The stability of the labor share of income is a key foundation in macroeconomic models. We document, however, that the … global labor share has significantly declined since the early 1980s, with the decline occurring within the large majority of … information technology and the computer age, induced firms to shift away from labor and toward capital. The lower price of …

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Exploring Reallocation's Apparent Weak Contribution to Growth

Nishida, Mitsukuni - 2013

recent robust growth in Aggregate Labor Productivity (ALP) across twenty-five countries is due to lower barriers to input … may be because BHC indices decompose ALP growth using plant-level output-per-labor (OL) as a proxy for the marginal … product of labor and changes in OL as a proxy for changes in plant-level productivity. We provide simple examples to show that …

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Laboratory Safety and Research Productivity

Galasso, Alberto; Luo, Hong; Zhu, Brooklynn - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

Are laboratory safety practices a tax on scientific productivity? We examine this question by exploiting the substantial increase in safety regulations at the University of California following the shocking death of a research assistant in 2008. Difference-in-differences analyses show that...

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State Capacity as an Organizational Problem : Evidence from the Growth of the U.S. State Over 100 Years

Mastrorocco, Nicola; Teso, Edoardo - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

We study how the organization of the state evolves over the process of development of a nation, using a new dataset on the internal organization of the U.S. federal bureaucracy over 1817-1905. First, we show a series of facts, describing how the size of the state, its presence across the...

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Innovation in the U.S. Government

Bruce, Joshua R. - 2020

This paper examines the U.S. government's intramural research and development efforts over a 40-year period, drawing together multiple human capital, government spending, and patent datasets. The U.S. Federal Government innovates along four dimensions: technological, organizational, regulatory,...

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Letter Grading Government Efficiency

Chong, Alberto - 2012

We mailed letters to non-existent business addresses in 159 countries (10 per country), and measured whether they come back to the return address in the US and how long it takes. About 60% of the letters were returned, taking over 6 months, on average. The results provide new objective...

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