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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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. Between 2010 and 2018, the growth in ICT capital played a much larger role than robot adoption in the changes in the labour …
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a large negative impact of robot exposure on employment and wages of Chinese workers. Effects are concentrated in the …
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We investigate the impact of robot adoption on electoral outcomes in 14 Western European countries, between 1993 and …-sample employment patterns in the region of residence. We instrument robot adoption in each country using the pace of robot adoption in … other countries. Higher exposure to robot adoption is found to increase support for nationalist and radicalright parties …
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We study the effects of robot penetration on household income inequality in 14 European countries between 2006-2018, a … exposed demographic groups, similarly to the results for the United States. Using robot-driven wage and employment shocks as …
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Since the early 1990s, recoveries from recessions in the US have been plagued by weak employment growth. One possible explanation for these "jobless" recoveries is rooted in technological change: middle-skill jobs, often involving routine tasks, are lost during recessions, and the displaced...
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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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market, deriving implications for wage inequality, employment, and unemployment. …
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An emerging literature argues that changes in the allocation of workplace "tasks" between capital and labor, and between domestic and foreign workers, has altered the structure of labor demand in industrialized countries and fostered employment polarization - that is, rising employment in the...
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Whereas there are recent papers on the effect of robot adoption on employment and wages, there is no evidence on how … robots affect non-monetary working conditions. We explore the impact of robot adoption on several domains of non … Working Conditions Survey. In order to deal with the possible endogeneity of robot deployment, we employ an instrumental …
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