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Structural Change and Productivity Growth in Europe - Past, Present and Future

Duernecker, Georg; Sanchez-Martinez, Miguel - 2021

This paper studies the effect of structural change on the historical path of aggregate labor productivity growth for a … that structural change may have on future productivity growth. We document that the observed reallocation of economic … activity since the 1970s towards the service sector has exerted a strongly negative effect on aggregate productivity growth in …

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Does Electricity Drive Structural Transformation? Evidence from the United States

Gaggl, Paul - 2019

Electricity is a general purpose technology and the catalyst for the second industrial revolution. Developing countries are currently making huge investments in electrification, with a view to achieving structural change. What does history say about its impact on the structure of employment? We...

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Labour Markets, Trade and Technological Progress : A Meta-Study

Terzidis, Nikos - 2019

Technological progress and trade potentially affect wages and employment. Technological progress can make jobs obsolete and trade can increase unemployment in import competing sectors. Empirical evidence suggests that both causes are important to explain recent labour market developments in many...

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Structural Transformation of Occupation Employment

Duernecker, Georg; Herrendorf, Berthold - 2021

We use census data to show that structural transformation reflects a fundamental reallocation of labor from goods to services, instead of a relabelling that occurs when goods-producing firms outsource their in-house service production. The novelty of our approach is that it categorizes labor by...

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Structural Change in Production Networks and Economic Growth

Gaggl, Paul; Gorry, Aspen; Vom Lehn, Christian - 2023

stemming from reallocation induced by structural change. At the same time, productivity growth within the input-output network …

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Import Competition, Heterogeneous Preferences of Managers, and Productivity

Chen, Cheng - 2020

may then force managers to improve the productivity of the firm in order to ensure survival. While this hypothesis has … competition shocks. We find that import competition leads to productivity increases in family-managed firms that are initially … unproductive. Productivity improvements are driven by family management as opposed to family ownership or non-managing family …

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Comparative Advantage in (Non-)Routine Production

Archanskaia, Liza - 2020

We illustrate a new source of comparative advantage that is generated by countries' different ability to adjust to technological change. Our model introduces substitution of workers in codifiable (routine) tasks with more efficient machines, a process extensively documented in the labor...

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Technological and Organizational Change and the Careers of Workers

Battisti, Michele; Dustmann, Christian; Schonberg, Uta - 2022

This paper investigates the effects of technological and organizational change (T&O) on jobs and workers. We show that although T&O reduces firm demand for routine relative to abstract task-based jobs, affected workers do not face higher probability of non-employment or lower earnings growth...

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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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The Diffusion of Technological Progress in ICT

Elstner, Steffen; Grimme, Christian; Kecht, Valentin; … - 2021

productivity in the rest of the economy. To separate exogenous gains in ICT from other technological progress, we use the relative …

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