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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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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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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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Industrial Robots, Workers' Safety, and Health

Gihleb, Rania; Giuntella, Osea; Stella, Luca; Wang, Tianyi - 2022

This study explores the relationship between the adoption of industrial robots and workplace injuries. Using establishment-level data on injuries, we find that a one standard deviation increase in our commuting zone-level measure of robot exposure reduces work-related annual injury rates by...

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Are Your Labor Shares Set in Beijing? The View through the Lens of Global Value Chains

Reshef, Ariell; Santoni, Gianluca - 2022

We study the evolution of labor shares in 1995-2014, while taking into account international trade based on value added concepts. Declines in labor shares accelerate in 2001-2007, concurrently with global value chain (GVC) integration, after which there is no trend for both. We develop a...

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Public Finance in the Era of the Covid-19 Crisis

Agrawal, David R.; Bütikofer, Aline - 2022

The COVID-19 crisis poses new policy challenges and has spurred new research agendas in public economics. In this article, we selectively reflect on how the field of public economics has been shaped by the COVID-19 pandemic and discuss several areas where more research is necessary. We highlight...

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Tax Policy in a Model of Search with Training

Boone, Jan; De Mooij, Ruud A. - 2000

This paper develops a model of search on the labour market with training. The model reveals how the tax system can restore the social optimum if the Hosio s condition is not satisfied in the private equilibrium. Furthermore, the effects are explored of a second-best reform from average to...

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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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Workings of the melting pot : social networks and the evolution of population attributes

Brueckner, Jan Keith; Smirnov, Oleg - 2004

This paper links the two nascent economic literatures on social networks and cultural assimilation by investigating the evolution of population attributes in a simple model where agents are influenced by their acquaintances. The main conclusion of the analysis is that attributes converge to a...

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Demographic, residential, and socioeconomic effects on the distribution of 19th century US white statures

Carson, Scott Alan - 2009

Using a source of 19th century US state prison records, this study addresses European-American stature variation. The most commonly cited sources for stature variation are diets, disease, and work effort. However, vitamin D is also vital in human statures and health. This paper demonstrates that...

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