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This paper provides evidence on the impact of digitalisation on productivity in Slovenia during the COVID-19 crisis …. The pandemic affected overall labour productivity negatively. Nonetheless, results show that firms that were more ICT …-intensive before the pandemic experienced a smaller decline in their labour productivity growth compared to their less ICT …
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Recently, Galí and others have found that technological progress may be contractionary: a favorable technology shock reduces hours worked in the short run. We ask whether this observation is robust in disaggregate data. According to our VAR analysis of 458 four-digit U.S. manufacturing...
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R&D output to capture the contribution of R&D (direct and spilled-over) to regional productivity at the industry level …. The results suggest that interregional knowledge spillovers and their productivity effects are to a substantial degree …) produce interregional knowledge spillovers that have positive and highly significant productivity effects. The study, moreover …
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The relationship between imported technology and employment is a controversial issue. This study aims to test the hypothesis that the relationship between imported technology and employment is non-linear and evolves with the level of technology imports. The study covers two groups of developed...
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is highly disaggregated at the industry level with an input-output network structure. Measured productivity in the model …-specific, uncorrelated across industries. The bulk of the aggregate fluctuations, including those in aggregate measured productivity, are … data. Our second finding is that about half of the decrease in the cyclicality of measured productivity in the U.S. after …
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Empirical evidence in Dauth et al. (J Eur Econ Assoc, 2021) suggests that industrial robot adoption in Germany has led to a sectoral reallocation of employment from manufacturing to services, leaving total employment unaffected. We rationalize this evidence through the lens of a general...
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has been a structural break in manufacturing productivity beginning in the 1990s in the US. This paper investigates how a … adjustment of output, productivity and employment in the manufacturing sector. Impulse responses are constructed using parameter … identified in 1995. Impulse responses are used to contrast the relative size of productivity, output and employment adjustments …
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productivity may represent a cyclical phenomenon rather than a permanent increase in the rate of growth of productivity …
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labor productivity shock has a strong negative effect on employment. There are tantalizing and interesting differences … between TFP and labor productivity. We argue that TFP is a more natural measure of technology because labor productivity …
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We describe new experimental productivity statistics, Dispersion Statistics on Productivity (DiSP), jointly developed … and published by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) and the Census Bureau. Official BLS productivity statistics provide … information on aggregate productivity growth. Yet, a large body of research shows that within-industry variation in productivity …
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