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We were the robots : automation and voting behavior in Western Europe
Anelli, Massimo; Colantone, Italo; Stanig, Piero - 2019
ideology scores from the Manifesto Project. We measure exposure to automation both at the regional level, based on the ex …
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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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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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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012059642
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012222391
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012266979
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The macroeconomics of automation : data, theory, and policy analysis
Jaimovich, Nir; Saporta-Eksten, Itay; Siu, Henry E.; … - 2020
investment. This allows us to quantify the role of advancement in automation technology in accounting for these labor market …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012161124
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The wrong kind of AI? : artificial intelligence and the future of labor demand
Acemoglu, Daron; Restrepo, Pascual - 2019
humans can be productively employed. Recent technological change has been biased towards automation, with insufficient focus … tendency is to develop AI in the direction of further automation, but this might mean missing out on the promise of the "right …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012001438
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Coevolution of job automation risk and workplace governance
Belloc, Filippo; Burdín, Gabriel; Cattani, Luca; … - 2021
This paper analyzes the interplay between the allocation of authority within firms and workers' exposure to automation … are likely to emerge in our framework: in one, workplace governance is based on ER and job designs have low automation … risk; in the other, ER is absent and workers are involved in automation-prone production tasks. Using data from a large …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012649684
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Robots at work
Graetz, Georg; Michaels, Guy - 2015
Despite ubiquitous discussions of robots' potential impact, there is almost no systematic empirical evidence on their economic effects. In this paper we analyze for the first time the economic impact of industrial robots, using new data on a panel of industries in 17 countries from 1993-2007. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010501865