inequality, and higher productivity growth through automation. In this paper we critically re-assess these predictions by (i … aggregate demand. A second is that the predictions of AI causing massive job losses and faster growth in productivity and GDP … growth and productivity is stagnating and inequality is rising. Our paper provides a theoretical explanation of this in the …

stock through firm-sponsored training might lead to more innovation. We test this hypothesis using detailed data on firms …' human capital investments and innovation performance, the Canadian longitudinal linked employer-employee data from 1999 …-2006. Our results, with workplace fixed-effects and allowing for time-varying productivity shocks, demonstrate that more …

discuss some implications of the big shift for pay, productivity, and the pace of innovation. Over the next five years, U …

important gap in most empirical studies of establishment-level productivity is the limited information about workers …' characteristics and their tasks. Skill-adjusted labor input measures have been shown to be important for aggregate productivity …-access establishment-level productivity dataset created by the BLS-Census Bureau Collaborative Micro-productivity Project. We take a first …

impressive productivity gains. But it is easy to confuse true productivity advances in transportation industries with changes in … productivity can be overwhelmed by even subtle changes in the traffic mix. After controlling for endogenous changes in the … data, 1982-1997, with observed productivity changes much more likely due to changes in speed limits and the dimensions of …

reservation wages, shifting the labor force towards the more productive firms. The relation between productivity dispersion and UI … policy is mediated by the wage posting policies of firms that take both productivity and policy into account. Optimal UI … policy is shown to crucially depend on the properties of the firm productivity distribution, such as its variance and …