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The impact of ICT and robots on labour market outcomes of demographic groups in Europe
Albinowski, Maciej; Lewandowski, Piotr - 2022
We study the age- and gender-specific labour market effects of two key modern technologies, Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) and robots, in 14 European countries between 2010 and 2018. To identify the causal effects of technology adoption, we utilise the variation in technology...
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Technological progress, occupational structure and gender gaps in the German labour market
Bachmann, Ronald; Gonschor, Myrielle - 2022
We analyze if technological progress and the corresponding change in the occupational structure have improved the relative position of women in the labour market. We show that the share of women rises most strongly in non-routine cognitive and manual occupations, but declines in routine...
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Technological change and employment : were Ricardo and Marx right?
Piva, Mariacristina; Vivarelli, Marco - 2017
significant labour-friendly impact of R&D expenditures (mainly related to product innovation) is found; yet, this positive …-saving effect due to the embodied technological change incorporated in gross investment (mainly related to process innovation). …
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Technological progress and (un)employment development
Blien, Uwe; Ludewig, Oliver - 2017
, employment and national income for Germany provided by the Federal Statistical Office. We estimate Marshallian type demand …
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Employment structures in China from 1990 to 2015: demographic and technological change
Ge, Peng; Sun, Wenkai; Zhao, Zhong - 2021
Using national representative samples from population census and mini-census of China, this paper documents important employment dynamics in China from 1990 to 2015. The share of routine manual jobs decreased significant from 57% to 32%; both the share of routine cognitive jobs and the share of...
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The empirics of technology, employment and occupations : lessons learned and challenges ahead
Montobbio, Fabio; Staccioli, Jacopo; Virgillito, Maria … - 2022
What have we learned, from the most recent years of debate and analysis, of the future of work being threatened by technology? This paper presents a critical review of the empirical literature and outlines both lessons learned and challenges ahead. Far from being fully exhaustive, the review...
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May AI revolution be labour-friendly? : some micro evidence from the supply side
Damioli, Giacomo; Van Roy, Vincent; Vertesy, Daniel; … - 2021
innovation in the AI supply industries. However, this effect is small in magnitude and limited to service sectors and younger …
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R&D, embodied technological change and employment : evidence from Italian microdata
Barbieri, Laura; Piva, Mariacristina; Vivarelli, Marco - 2016
This paper explores the employment impact of innovation activity, taking into account both R&D expenditures and …-2010. The main outcome from the proposed fixed effect estimations is a labor-friendly nature of total innovation expenditures … ETC is included as a proxy for innovation activities. Moreover, the positive employment impacts of innovation activities …
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The wrong kind of AI? : artificial intelligence and the future of labor demand
Acemoglu, Daron; Restrepo, Pascual - 2019
Artificial Intelligence is set to influence every aspect of our lives, not least the way production is organized. AI, as a technology platform, can automate tasks previously performed by labor or create new tasks and activities in which humans can be productively employed. Recent technological...
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Wages, innovation, and employment in China
Fleisher, Belton M.; McGuire, William; Wang, Xiaojun; … - 2017
We investigate the role of factor-priced-induced innovation in mediating the employment impact of expanding production … summarized by Wei, Xie, and Zhang (2017) that focus on directly observable aspects of innovation (R&D, patent activity, etc …
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