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AI, Task Changes in Jobs, and Worker Reallocation

Gathmann, Christina; Grimm, Felix; Winkler, Erwin - 2024

How does Artificial Intelligence (AI) affect the task content of work, and how do workers adjust to the diffusion of AI in the economy? To answer these important questions, we combine novel patent-based measures of AI and robot exposure with individual survey data on tasks performed on the job...

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The Rise of Generative AI: Modelling Exposure, Substitution, and Inequality Effects on the US Labour Market

Auer, Raphael; Köpfer, David; Švéda, Josef - 2024

How exposed is the labour market to ever-advancing AI capabilities, to what extent does this substitute human labour, and how will it affect inequality? We address these questions in a simulation of 711 US occupations classified by the importance and level of cognitive skills. We base our...

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The Greener, the Higher: Labor Demand of Automotive Firms during the Green Transformation

Fackler, Thomas; Falck, Oliver; Goldbeck, Moritz; Hans, … - 2024

We investigate differences in labor demand between German automotive firms specializing in green propulsion technology …-universe of online job postings and firms’ patent portfolios. Workforce adjustments are a crucial dimension of technology … with a focus on combustion technology. This gap widens over time and is not driven by unobserved firm heterogeneity. Green …

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Firm Response to Competitive Shocks: Evidence from China's Minimum Wage Policy

Hau, Harald; Huang, Yi; Wang, Gewei - 2017

The large regional variation in minimum wage levels in the period 2002-08 in China implies that Chinese manufacturing firms experienced competitive shocks as a function of firm location and their low-wage employment share. We find that minimum wage hikes accelerate the input substitution from...

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Equity, Commodity, and Distillate Risks During Industrial Transformation: Innovation in the Oil & Gas Industry Using GARCH Difference-in-Decompositions

Carson, Scott Alan - 2024

fracking revolution changed within-group technology that favored Independent firms who outperformed larger Integrated producers …

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Robots and firms

Koch, Michael; Manuylov, Ilya; Smolka, Marcel - 2019

literature to formalize the implications of robot technology. As for the first question, we establish robust evidence that ex …

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Firms and Labor in Times of Violence: Evidence from the Mexican Drug War

Utar, Hale - 2018

Violence in Mexico has reached unprecedented levels in recent times. After the government began a crackdown on drug cartels, nation-wide homicides almost tripled between 2006 and 2010. Using rich longitudinal plant-level data, this paper studies the impact of violent conflict on firms,...

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AI Users Are Not All Alike: The Characteristics of French Firms Buying and Developing AI

Calvino, Flavio; Fontanelli, Luca - 2024

In this work we characterise French firms using artificial intelligence (AI) and explore the link between AI use and productivity. We distinguish AI users that source AI from external providers (AI buyers) from those developing their own AI systems (AI developers). AI buyers tend to be larger...

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Can the Labor Demand Curve Explain Job Polarization?

Peichl, Andreas; Popp, Martin - 2022

In recent decades, many industrialized economies have witnessed a pattern of job polarization. While shifts in labor demand, namely routinization or offshoring, constitute conventional explanations for job polarization, there is little research on whether shifts in labor supply along the labor...

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Matching through Search Channels

Carrillo-Tudela, Carlos; Kaas, Leo; Lochner, Benjamin - 2023

Firms and workers predominately match via job postings, networks of personal contacts or the public employment agency, all of which help to ameliorate labor market frictions. In this paper we investigate the extent to which these search channels have differential effects on labor market...

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