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Graetz, Georg; Michaels, Guy - 2015

robot use with a measure of workers' replaceability by robots, which is based on the tasks prevalent in industries before …

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Robots at work: automatable and non automatable jobs

Josten, Cecily; Lordan, Grace - 2019

This study builds on Autor and Dorn's (2013) classification of automatable work at the three-digit occupation code level to identify additional jobs that will be automatable in the next decade by drawing on patent data. Based on this new classification the study provides estimates of the share...

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We were the robots : automation and voting behavior in Western Europe

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

We investigate the impact of robot adoption on electoral outcomes in 14 Western European countries, between 1993 and …-sample employment patterns in the region of residence. We instrument robot adoption in each country using the pace of robot adoption in … other countries. Higher exposure to robot adoption is found to increase support for nationalist and radicalright parties …

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Robots, meaning, and self-determination

Nikolova, Milena; Cnossen, Femke; Nikolaev, Boris N. - 2023

This paper is the first to examine the impact of robotization on work meaningfulness and autonomy, competence, and relatedness, which are essential to motivation and well-being at work. Drawing on surveys from workers and industry-specific robotization data across 14 industries in 20 European...

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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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Factory automation, labor demand, and local labor market

Kawaguchi, Daiji; Okazaki, Tetsuji; Zhu, Xuanli - 2024

This study examines the impact of a technological change on employment and wages, focusing on the adoption of power looms in the silk-weaving industry. Exploiting plant-level panel data from 20th century Japan, we demonstrate that at the plant level, the power loom adaption increased the...

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Productive robots and industrial employment : the role of national innovation systems

Kapetaniou, Chrystalla; Pissaridēs, Christophoros A. - 2022

In a model with robots, and automatable and complementary human tasks, we examine robot-labour substitutions and show …

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Automation and related technologies: a mapping of the new knowledge base

Santarelli, Enrico; Staccioli, Jacopo; Vivarelli, Marco - 2022

Using the entire population of USPTO patent applications published between 2002 and 2019, and leveraging on both patent classification and semantic analysis, this paper aims to map the current knowledge base centred on robotics and AI technologies. These technologies are investigated both as a...

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Local shocks and internal migration: the disparate effects of robots and Chinese imports in the US

Faber, Marius; Sarto, Andrés; Tabellini, Marco - 2021

Migration has long been considered one of the key mechanisms through which labor markets adjust to economic shocks. In this paper, we analyze the migration response of American workers to two of the most important shocks that hit US manufacturing since the late 1990s - Chinese import competition...

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The impact of robots on labour market transitions in Europe

Bachmann, Ronald; Gonschor, Myrielle; Lewandowski, Piotr; … - 2022

We study the effects of robot exposure on worker flows in 16 European countries between 1998-2017. Overall, we find … driver of cross-country differences: the effects of robot exposure are generally larger in absolute terms in countries with …, robot exposure had a beneficial effect on transitions. Our results imply that robot adoption increased employment and …

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