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The growth of low skill service jobs and the polarization of the US labor market
Autor, David H.; Dorn, David - 2012
We offer an integrated explanation and empirical analysis of the polarization of U.S. employment and wages between 1980 and 2005, and the concurrent growth of low skill service occupations. We attribute polarization to the interaction between consumer preferences, which favor variety over...
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Organizational redesign, information technologies and workplace productivity
Dostie, Benoît (contributor);  … - 2008
Using a large longitudinal, nationally representative workplace-level dataset, we explore the productivity gains associated with computer use and organizational redesign. The empirical strategy involves the estimation of a production function, augmented to account for technology use and...
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Rise of the machines : the effects of labor-saving innovations on jobs and wages
Feng, Andy; Graetz, Georg - 2015
How do firms respond to technological advances that facilitate the automation of tasks? Which tasks will they automate …
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How do workers perceive the risks from automation and the opportunities to retrain? : evidence from a survey of truck drivers
Shoag, Daniel W.; Strain, Michael R.; Veuger, Stan - 2021
How do truck drivers perceive the risk they face from automation and their opportunities to retrain for employment in a … concerned about automation are, counterintuitively, also most likely to say they intend to re-invest in driving by seeking …
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People versus machines in the UK : minimum wages, labor reallocation and automatable jobs
Lordan, Grace - 2019
This study follows the Lordan and Neumark (2018) analysis for the US, and examines whether minimum wage increases affect employment opportunities in automatable jobs in the UK for low-skilled low-wage workers. Overall, I find that increasing the minimum wage decreases the share of automatable...
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Labor supply and automation innovation
Danzer, Alexander M.; Feuerbaum, Carsten; Gäßler, 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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Automation, globalization and vanishing jobs : a labor market sorting view
Faia, Ester; Laffitte, Sébastien; Mayer, Maximilian; … - 2020
We show, theoretically and empirically, that the effects of technological change associated with automation and … is that better matches enjoy a comparative advantage in exploiting automation and a comparative disadvantage in … exploiting offshoring. It implies that automation (offshoring) may reduce (raise) employment by lengthening (shortening …
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Robots and worker voice: an empirical exploration
Belloc, Filippo; Burdín, Gabriel; Landini, Fabio - 2020
The interplay between labour institutions and the adoption of automation technologies remains poorly understood … conditional correlations between the presence of employee representation (ER) and the use of automation technologies. We find that … management. Greater automation in establishments with ER does not seem to result from more adversarial employment relationships …
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How robots change within-firm wage inequality
Barth, Erling; Røed, Marianne; Schøne, Pål; Umblijs, … - 2020
Using novel matched employer-employee register data with firm-level information on the introduction of industrial robots, this paper analysis the impact of robots on the wages of workers in the manufacturing sector. The results show that industrial robots increase wages for high-skilled workers...
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Robots and the gender pay gap in Europe
Aksoy, Cevat Giray; Özcan, Berkay; Philipp, Julia - 2020
Could robotization make the gender pay gap worse? We provide the first large-scale evidence on the impact of industrial robots on the gender pay gap using data from 20 European countries. We show that robot adoption increases both male and female earnings but also increases the gender pay gap....
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