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Presidente, Giorgio - 2019

a sample of advanced economies. Institutions explain a substantial proportion of cross-country variation in automation … vulnerable to holdup. This suggests that automation is used by producers as a tool to thwart rent appropriation by labor …

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Service Offshoring and Export Experience

Berlingieri, Giuseppe; Ornelas, Emanuel; Marcolin, Luca - 2021

Service inputs are a key component of the costs of exporting, and contribute to explain the process of internationalization of firms. A new dataset on the participation of French firms in global value chains reveals that firms with longer export experience in a market are more likely to source...

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Automation, Global Value Chains and Functional Specialization

Fontagné, Lionel; Reshef, Ariell; Santoni, Gianluca; … - 2023

We study how technology adoption and changes in global value chain (GVC) integration jointly affect labor shares and business function specialization in a sample of 14 manufacturing industries in 14 European countries in 1999–2011. Our main contribution is to highlight the indirect effect of...

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Effects of Innovation on Employment : A Dynamic Panel Analysis

Lachenmaier, Stefan; Rottmann, Horst - 2021

This paper estimates the effect of innovation on employment at the firm level. Our uniquely long innovation panel data set of German manufacturing firms covers more than 20 years and allows us to use various innovation measures. We can distinguish between product and process innovations as well...

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Global Value Chains, Trade Shocks and Jobs : An Application to Brexit

Vandenbussche, Hylke - 2019

We develop a network trade model with country-sector level input-output linkages. It includes (1) domestic and global value chain linkages between all country-sectors, (2) direct as well as indirect shipments (via other sectors and countries) to a final destination, (3) value added rather than...

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Labor Market Effects of Global Supply Chain Disruptions

Ulate, Mauricio; Zarate, Roman D.; Vasquez, Jose - 2023

We examine the labor market consequences of recent global supply chain disruptions induced by COVID-19. Specifically, we consider a temporary increase in international trade costs similar to the one observed during the pandemic and analyze its effects on labor market outcomes using a...

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Globalization and the rise of mega-cities in the developing world

van der Ploeg, Frederick; Poelhekke, Steven - 2008

Thomas Friedman has argued in The World is Flat that those who deny rapid globalization will not survive in the global … economy. First, we critically discuss Friedman's views and highlight the new globalization driven by outsourcing and vertical …

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We Were the Robots : Automation and Voting Behavior in Western Europe

Anelli, Massimo - 2019

ideology scores from the Manifesto Project. We measure exposure to automation both at the regional level, based on the ex …

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Automation, Economic Growth, and the Labor Share - A Comment on Prettner (2019)

Heer, Burkhard - 2019

Prettner (2019) studies the implications of automation for economic growth and the labor share in a variant of the … Solow-Swan model. The aggregate production function allows for two types of capital, traditional and automation capital …. Traditional capital and labor are imperfect substitutes whereas automation capital and labor are perfect substitutes. In this …

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Automation, Growth, and Factor Shares in the Era of Population Aging

Irmen, Andreas - 2021

processes? The present paper addresses this question in a new macroeconomic model of automation where competitive firms perform … and substitute for labor in the performance of tasks. Automation is labor-augmenting in the reduced-form aggregate … though the aggregate production function is Cobb-Douglas. Population aging due to a higher longevity reduces automation in …

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