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Who protests, what do they protest, and why?
Chenoweth, Erica; Hamilton, Barton Hughes; Lee, Hedwig; … - 2022
collected in the summer of 2020 was expanded to capture details about protest attendance, political views, and support for … representative part of the population and that the decision to protest is deliberate in the sense that it is responsive to incentives … and issue salience. We also provide novel evidence of movement overlap - attending a Black Lives Matter protest is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013448622
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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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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012304887
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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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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012249699
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012037816
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012140291
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014442607
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014391207
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The impact of ICT and robots on labour market outcomes of demographic groups in Europe
Albinowski, Maciej; Lewandowski, Piotr - 2022
. Between 2010 and 2018, the growth in ICT capital played a much larger role than robot adoption in the changes in the labour …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013470097