Labor Supply and Automation Innovation

Military spending and innovation: learning from 19th-century world fair exhibition data

“…Innovation in some markets might, hence, depend strongly on regional factors as suggested by the recently emerging literature hinting at a strong regional bias in innovation (Bernard et al, 2019;Danzer et al, 2020;Paci & Usai, 2000).…”

“…Furthermore, our setting and data allow us to explore the relationship between innovation and other military-related variables such as army size and the occurrence of wars. More generally, our paper adds to the small but growing literature on determinants of the direction of technological change such as factor endowments (Hanlon, 2015) or labor supply (Danzer et al, 2020).…”

Monopsony and Automation

“…Second, we contribute to a recent research on the determinants of automation (Acemoglu and Restrepo, 2022;Danzer et al, 2020;Dechezleprêtre et al, 2021;Fan et al, 2021) by showing that idiosyncratic differences in rms labor market power can affect incentives to automate. The existing literature has predominantly focused on regional differences in labor markets like demographic change, migration, or minimum wage policies.…”

‘Good jobs’, training and skilled immigration

“…Similarly, firms can modify their choices of technology (Lewis 2011; Danzer et al . 2020). However, there is little in the existing literature studying the link between immigration and the training of the native‐born workforce, which is the subject of this paper.…”

“…Faced with rising immigration, native-born workers may change their educational decisions (Hunt 2017), occupation (Llull 2018), or task specialization focus (Foged and Peri 2016). Similarly, firms can modify their choices of technology (Lewis 2011;Danzer et al 2020). However, there is little in the existing literature studying the link between immigration and the training of the native-born workforce, which is the subject of this paper.…”