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What works in supporting women-led businesses?
Ubfal, Diego - 2024
Innovative women entrepreneurs can be agents of change and offer novel solutions to global challenges. However, they … face multiple barriers to growing their businesses. This paper reviews the literature on strategies to support women … technology and markets, and contextual factors such as legal and regulatory constraints, social norms, access to care, and gender …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014525018
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012603222
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012127323
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Testing the employment impact of automation, robots and AI : a survey and some methodological issues
Barbieri, Laura; Mussida, Chiara; Piva, Mariacristina; … - 2019
The present technological revolution, characterized by the pervasive and growing presence of robots, automation, Artificial Intelligence and machine learning, is going to transform societies and economic systems. However, this is not the first technological revolution humankind has been facing,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012116763
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The race against the robots and the fallacy of the giant cheesecake : immediate and imagined impacts of artificial intelligence
Naudé, Wim - 2019
After a number of AI-winters, AI is back with a boom. There are concerns that it will disrupt society. The immediate concern is whether labor can win a 'race against the robots' and the longer-term concern is whether an artificial general intelligence (super-intelligence) can be controlled. This...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011993083
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Robots and workers : evidence from the Netherlands
Acemoglu, Daron; Koster, Hans; Ozgen, Ceren - 2023
We estimate the effects of robot adoption on firm-level and worker-level outcomes in the Netherlands using a large … value added and hours worked for robot-adopting firms and negative outcomes on competitors in the same industry. Our worker … earnings and employment rates, while other workers indirectly gain from robot adoption. We also find that the negative effects …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014230161
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Robots at work
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010501865
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012821886
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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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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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