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Gift exchange in the workplace: money or attention?

Dur, Robert - 2008

We develop a model of manager-employee relationships where employees care more for their manager when they are more convinced that their manager cares for them. Managers can signal their altruistic feelings towards their employees in two ways: by offering a generous wage and by giving attention....

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Income mobility of owners of small businesses when boundaries between occupations are vague

Thoresen, Thor Olav - 2009

Ownership of small businesses can facilitate upward mobility through the income hierarchy and help individuals maintain a place at the higher end of the income distribution hierarchy. This paper compares the positional stability of owners of small businesses with that of wage earners, arguing...

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History Dependence, Cohort Attachment, and Job Referrals in Networks of Close Relationships

Chen-Zion, Ayal - 2019

We model network formation in a firm. Agents learn about the quality of their working relationships with each other. Their good relationships become their networks. Accumulating relationships becomes increasingly costly, however. Over time agents become less open to forming relationships with...

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Robots and firms

Koch, Michael; Manuylov, Ilya; Smolka, Marcel - 2019

We study the implications of robot adoption at the level of individual firms using a rich panel data-set of Spanish manufacturing firms over a 27-year period (1990-2016). We focus on three central questions: (1) Which firms adopt robots? (2) What are the labor market effects of robot adoption at...

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Automation, Economic Growth, and the Labor Share - A Comment on Prettner (2019) -

Heer, Burkhard; Irmen, Andreas - 2019

Prettner (2019) studies the implications of automation for economic growth and the labor share in a variant of the … Solow-Swan model. The aggregate production function allows for two types of capital, traditional and automation capital …. Traditional capital and labor are imperfect substitutes whereas automation capital and labor are perfect substitutes. In this …

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We Were the Robots: Automation and Voting Behavior in Western Europe

Anelli, Massimo; Colantone, Italo; Stanig, Piero - 2019

ideology scores from the Manifesto Project. We measure exposure to automation both at the regional level, based on the ex …

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AI, Automation and Taxation

Bastani, Spencer; Waldenström, Daniel - 2024

This paper examines the implications of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and automation for the taxation of labor and … posed by AI and automation may also be better addressed through regulatory measures rather than tax policy. …

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Automation and Employment over the Technology Life Cycle: Evidence from European Regions

Jaccoud, Florencia; Petit, Fabien; Ciarli, Tommaso; … - 2024

This paper examines the labor market implications of investment in automation over the life cycle of ICT and robot … these automation technologies and identify the phases of acceleration and deceleration in investment. We then examine how … exposure to these automation technologies affects employment and wages across these different phases of their life cycle. We …

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The Employment Impact of Emerging Digital Technologies

Prytkova, Ekaterina; Petit, Fabien; Li, Deyu; … - 2024

This paper measures the exposure of industries and occupations to 40 digital technologies that emerged over the past decade and estimates their impact on European employment. Using a novel approach that leverages sentence transformers, we calculate exposure scores based on the semantic...

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Labor Demand in the Past, Present and Future

Graetz, Georg - 2020

Since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution, technological change has led to the automation of existing tasks and … with productivity growth. I provide evidence suggesting, however, that in recent decades automation has outpaced the …

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