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The "robot economy" and optimal taxtransfer reforms
Colombino, Ugo; Islam, Nizamul - 2022
Globalization and automation might imply deep changes on the labour market. An important policy issue is whether and how the tax-transfer rules should be reformed to cope with those changes. While the prevailing response has consisted of more sophisticated designs of mean-testing and targeting,...
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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 origin of their labour-saving impact
Montobbio, Fabio; Staccioli, Jacopo; Virgillito, Maria … - 2020
This paper investigates the presence of explicit labour-saving heuristics within robotic patents. It analyses innovative actors engaged in robotic technology and their economic environment (identity, location, industry), and identifies the technological fields particularly exposed to...
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SISTA: learning optimal transport costs under sparsity constraints
Carlier, Guillaume; Dupuy, Arnaud; Galichon, Alfred; … - 2021
In this paper, we describe a novel iterative procedure called SISTA to learn the underlying cost in optimal transport problems. SISTA is a hybrid between two classical methods, coordinate descent ("S"-inkhorn) and proximal gradient descent ("ISTA"). It alternates between a phase of exact...
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Becker meets Ricardo : multisector matching with social and cognitive skills
McCann, Robert J.; Shi, Xianwen; Siow, Aloysius; … - 2012
communicate and coordinate at lower resource cost. The theory delivers full task specialization in the labor and education markets …
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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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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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