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Firm growth in the course of mergers and acquisitions

Burghardt, Dirk ; Helm, Marco

In: Small Business Economics, 2015, vol. 44, no. 4, p. 889-904

Università della Svizzera italiana

From blue to steel-collar jobs : The decline in employment gaps?

Lerch, Benjamin

The adoption of labor-replacing technologies has already displaced thousands of workers in the US. In this paper, I analyze how the adverse effects of the implementation of robots in firms’ production processes are spreading among the population and how they are shaping the composition of labor markets. Exploiting exogenous variation in robot exposure across local labor markets and over time,...