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Heterogeneous Adjustments of Labor Markets to Automation Technologies

Petit, Fabien; Jaccoud, Florencia; Ciarli, Tommaso - 2023

This paper examines the labor market adjustments to four automation technologies (i.e. robots, communication technology … measure of technology penetration, we estimate changes in regional employment and wages affected by automation technologies … along with the reallocation of workers between sectors. We find that labor market adjustments to automation technologies …

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

Jaccoud, Florencia; Petit, Fabien; Ciarli, Tommaso; … - 2025

This paper analyzes how the impacts of ICT, Software & Databases, and Robots on European regional labor markets (1995-2017) vary across technology life cycle phases. Motivated by theories predicting shifting skill biases between early adoption and maturity, we first identify major technological...

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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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Behavior under social pressure: empty Italian stadiums and referee bias

Pettersson-Lidbom, Per; Priks, Mikael - 2007

This paper studies how social pressure affects the behavior of soccer referees. We make use of an attractive source of exogenous variation in the number of spectators at matches. Due to recent hooligan violence, the Italian government has implemented a regulation that forces some soccer teams to...

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Labor Market Policies and European Crises

Bertola, Giuseppe - 2013

This paper studies theoretically and empirically why and how labor policies may reduce productivity and employment in order to stabilize labor incomes and redistribute resources. It proposes a specific stylized model where the tradeoffs facing labor policies are influenced by structural factors,...

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Equilibrium Search and the Impact of Equal Opportunities for Women

Coles, Melvyn G.; Francesconi, Marco - 2013

This paper develops a new equilibrium model of two-sided search where agents have multiple attributes and general payoff functions. The model can be applied to several substantive issues. Here we use it to provide a novel understanding of the separate effects of equal opportunities for women in...

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The Persistence of Gender Pay and Employment Gaps in European Countries

Afonso, António; Blanco-Arana, M. Carmen - 2024

The gender pay gap and the gender gap in employment remains persistent in Europe despite the basic assertion of gender equality under EU law. We assess the factors that influence the gender pay gap and gender employment gap across European countries. Therefore, we use an unbalanced panel of 31...

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Generative AI and the Nature of Work

Hoffmann, Manuel; Boysel, Sam; Nagle, Frank; Peng, Sida; … - 2024

Recent advances in artificial intelligence (AI) technology demonstrate considerable potential to complement human capital intensive activities. While an emerging literature documents wide-ranging productivity effects of AI, relatively little attention has been paid to how AI might change the...

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A Different World: Enduring Effects of School Desegregation on Ideology and Attitudes

Kaplan, Ethan; Spenkuch, Jörg L.; Tuttle, Cody - 2025

In 1975, a federal court ordered the desegregation of public schools in Jefferson County, KY. In order to approximately equalize the share of minorities across schools, students were assigned to a busing schedule that depended on the first letter of their last name. We use the resulting...

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The Impact of Teaching Coping Skills in Schools on Youth Mental Health and Academic Achievement: Evidence from a Field Experiment

Rege, Mari; Bru, Edvin; Solli, Ingeborg F.; Thijssen, … - 2025

Effective and scalable strategies for promoting youth mental health are urgently needed. We conducted a randomized controlled trial to assess the impact of school-based, teacher-led coping skills instruction on youth mental health and academic achievement. The trial included 84 classes and 1,879...

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