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Pandemics and Automation : Will the Lost Jobs Come Back?

Saadi Sedik, Tahsin; Yoo, Jiae - 2021

COVID-19 has exacerbated concerns about the rise of the robots and other automation technologies. This paper analyzes …

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Is Technology Widening the Gender Gap? Automation and the Future of Female Employment

Brussevich, Mariya - 2019

average, perform more routine tasks than men?tasks that are more prone to automation. To quantify the impact on jobs, we … relate data on task composition at work to occupation level estimates of probability of automation, controlling for a rich … workers are at a significantly higher risk for displacement by automation than male workers, with 11 percent of the female …

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Innovate to Lead or Innovate to Prevail : When Do Monopolistic Rents Induce Growth?

Piazza, Roberto - 2020

This paper extends the Schumpeterian model of creative destruction by allowing followers' cost of innovation to increase in their technological distance from the leader. This assumption is motivated by the observation the more technologically advanced the leader is, the harder it is for a...

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An Analysis of OPEC's Strategic Actions, US Shale Growth and the 2014 Oil Price Crash

Behar, Alberto - 2016

In November 2014, OPEC announced a new strategy geared towards improving its market share. Oil-market analysts interpreted this as an attempt to squeeze higher-cost producers including US shale oil out of the market. Over the next year, crude oil prices crashed, with large repercussions for the...

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Overcoming Data Sparsity : A Machine Learning Approach to Track the Real-Time Impact of COVID-19 in Sub-Saharan Africa

Barhoumi, Karim; Choi, Seung Mo; Iyer, Tara; Li, Jiakun; … - 2022

The COVID-19 crisis has had a tremendous economic impact for all countries. Yet, assessing the full impact of the crisis has been frequently hampered by the delayed publication of official GDP statistics in several emerging market and developing economies. This paper outlines a machine-learning...

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UnFEAR : Unsupervised Feature Extraction Clustering with an Application to Crisis Regimes Classification

Chan-Lau, Jorge A.; Wang, Ran - 2021

We introduce unFEAR, Unsupervised Feature Extraction Clustering, to identify economic crisis regimes. Given labeled crisis and non-crisis episodes and the corresponding features values, unFEAR uses unsupervised representation learning and a novel mode contrastive autoencoder to group episodes...

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Why is Labor Receiving a Smaller Share of Global Income? Theory and Empirical Evidence

Dao, Mai - 2017

This paper documents the downward trend in the labor share of global income since the early 1990s, as well as its heterogeneous evolution across countries, industries and worker skill groups, using a newly assembled dataset, and analyzes the drivers behind it. Technological progress, along with...

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What Explains the Decline of the U.S. Labor Share of Income? An Analysis of State and Industry Level Data

Abdih, Yasser - 2017

changes in technology that are linked to the automationof routine tasks, followed by trade globalization …

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Riding the Energy Transition : Oil Beyond 2040

Chérif, Réda - 2017

Recent technological developments and past technology transitions suggest that the worldcould be on the verge of a profound shift in transportation technology. The return of the electriccar and its adoption, like that of the motor vehicle in place of horses in early 20th century,could cut oil...

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The Exposure to Routinization : Labor Market Implications for Developed and Developing Economies

Das, Mitali - 2018

Evidence that the automation of routine tasks has contributed to the polarization of labor markets hasbeen documented …

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