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Disentangling the sources of pro-social behavior in the workplace : a field experiment

Tonin, Mirco; Vlassopoulos, Michael - 2009

This paper presents evidence from a field experiment, which aims to identify the two sources of worker's pro-social motivation that have been considered in the literature: action-oriented altruism and output-oriented altruism. To this end we employ an experimental design that first measures the...

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Smart-Working : Work Flexibility Without Constraints

Angelici, Marta - 2020

Does removing the constraints of time and place of work increase the utility of workers and firms? We design a randomized experiment on a sample of workers in a large Italian company: workers are randomly divided into a treated group that engages in flexible space and time job (which we call...

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Willingness to Pay for Workplace Safety

Anelli, Massimo; Koenig, Felix - 2021

This paper develops a revealed-preference approach that uses budget constrain discontinuities to price workplace safety. We track hourly workers who face the decision of how many hours to work at varying levels of Covid-19 risk and leverage state-specific discontinuities in unemployment...

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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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Labor Supply and Automation Innovation

Danzer, Alexander M.; Feuerbaum, Carsten; Gaessler, Fabian - 2020

supply on automation innovation by exploiting an immigrant placement policy in Germany during the 1990s and 2000s. Difference …-in-differences estimates indicate that one additional worker per 1,000 manual and unskilled workers reduces automation innovation by 0 …

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Robot Imports and Firm-Level Outcomes

Bonfiglioli, Alessandra; Crinò, Rosario; Fadinger, Harald - 2020

between robot imports and employment, exogenous changes in automation lead to job losses. We also find that robot imports … result suggests that productivity gains from automation may not be entirely passed on to consumers in the form of lower …

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Automation, Growth, and Factor Shares in the Era of Population Aging

Irmen, Andreas - 2021

processes? The present paper addresses this question in a new macroeconomic model of automation where competitive firms perform … and substitute for labor in the performance of tasks. Automation is labor-augmenting in the reduced-form aggregate … though the aggregate production function is Cobb-Douglas. Population aging due to a higher longevity reduces automation in …

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Robots, Marriageable Men, Family, and Fertility

Anelli, Massimo; Giuntella, Osea; Stella, Luca - 2021

Robots have radically changed the demand for skills and the role of workers in production. This phenomenon has replaced routine and mostly physical work of blue collar workers, but it has also created positive employment spillovers in other occupations and sectors that require more social...

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