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Working at home in Greece: unexplored potential at times of social distancing?
Pouliakas, Konstantinos - 2020
This paper investigates the incidence, trend and determinants of remote work in Greece. A crisis-stricken country in the years preceding the Covid-19 crisis, Greece entered the first wave of the public health shock as a laggard in digitalisation and remote work arrangements among European...
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The impact of artificial intelligence on labor markets in developing countries: a new method with an illustration for Lao PDR and Viet Nam
Carbonero, Francesco; Davies, Jeremy; Ernst, Ekkehard; … - 2021
AI is transforming labor markets around the world. Existing research has focused on advanced economies but has neglected developing economies. Different impacts of AI on labor markets in different countries arise not only from heterogeneous occupational structures, but also from the fact that...
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The race for an artificial general intelligence : implications for public policy
Naudé, Wim; Dimitri, Nicola - 2018
An arms race for an artificial general intelligence (AGI) would be detrimental for and even pose an existential threat to humanity if it results in an unfriendly AGI. In this paper an all-pay contest model is developed to derive implications for public policy to avoid such an outcome. It is...
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The wrong kind of AI? : artificial intelligence and the future of labor demand
Acemoglu, Daron; Restrepo, Pascual - 2019
, as a technology platform, can automate tasks previously performed by labor or create new tasks and activities in which …
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How do workers adjust when firms adopt new technologies?
Genz, Sabrina; Gregory, Terry; Janser, Markus; Lehmer, … - 2021
' technology adoption to administrative social security data. We then compare individual outcomes between workers employed at … technology adopters relative to non-adopters. Depending on the type of technology, we find evidence for improved employment … stability, higher wage growth, and increased cumulative earnings in response to digital technology adoption. These beneficial …
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Recessions and the labor market returns to cognitive and social skills
Frisvold, David E.; Kim, Sun Hyung - 2024
Although recessions negatively affect labor market outcomes, we find that individuals with greater cognitive skills have been less affected by recessions since 2000 compared to those in the 1980s and 1990s. This result occurs despite a decrease in the returns to cognitive skills over the last...
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Using domain-specific word embeddings to examine the demand for skills
Chaturvedi, Sugat; Mahajan, Kanika; Siddique, Zahra - 2023
We study the demand for skills by using text analysis methods on job descriptions in a large volume of ads posted on an online Indian job portal. We make use of domain-specific unlabeled data to obtain word vector representations (i.e., word embeddings) and discuss how these can be leveraged for...
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The task content of occupations
Bittarello, Luca; Kramarz, Francis; Maitre, Alexis - 2018
This paper evaluates how an increase in the supply of skilled labor affects task assignment within and between occupations. Guided by a simple theoretical framework, we exploit detailed information about individual workers' tasks from multiple surveys to examine the impact of a twofold rise in...
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Labour productivity in Kenyan manufacturing and service industries
Heshmati, Almas; Rashidghalam, Masoomeh - 2016
Labour productivity reflects a firm's ability to generate higher production or value-added. This paper analyses labour productivity and its determinants in the manufacturing and service sectors in Kenya. As the largest economy in East Africa, it is crucial for Kenya to have high labour...
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Does job support make workers happy?
Böckerman, Petri; Bryson, Alex; Kauhanen, Antti; … - 2017
Using linked employer-employee data for Finland we examine associations between job design and ten measures of worker wellbeing. In accordance with Karasek's (1979) model we find positive correlations between many aspects of worker wellbeing and job control. However, contrary to the model, job...
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