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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 … ideology scores from the Manifesto Project. We measure exposure to automation both at the regional level, based on the ex …-sample employment patterns in the region of residence. We instrument robot adoption in each country using the pace of robot adoption in …

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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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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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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 …

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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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Robots, labor markets, and family behavior

Anelli, Massimo; Giuntella, Osea; Stella, Luca - 2019

on regional industry specialization before the advent of robots combined with the growth of robot adoption by industry … regions affected by intense robot penetration experienced a decrease in new marriages, and an increase in both divorce and …-of-wedlock births. Our findings are consistent with the hypothesis that the changes in labor markets triggered by robot adoption …

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Automation and income inequality in Europe

Doorley, Karina; Gromadzki, Jan; Lewandowski, Piotr; … - 2023

We study the effects of robot penetration on household income inequality in 14 European countries between 2006-2018, a … period marked by the rapid adoption of industrial robots. Automation reduced relative hourly wages and employment of more … exposed demographic groups, similarly to the results for the United States. Using robot-driven wage and employment shocks as …

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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 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 … ER is positively associated with robot usage. The presence of ER also correlates with the utilization of software …

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Robots and the gender pay gap in Europe

Aksoy, Cevat Giray; Özcan, Berkay; Philipp, Julia - 2020

robots on the gender pay gap using data from 20 European countries. We show that robot adoption increases both male and …

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