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Quantity and quality of work in the platform economy

Bogliacino, Francesco; Codagnone, Cristiano; Cirillo, … - 2019

This critical and scoping review essay analyses digital labour markets where labour-intensive services are traded by matching requesters (employers and/or consumers) and providers (workers). It first discusses to what extent labour platform can be treated as two-sided or multi-sided markets, and...

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Women at Work in the Pre-Civil War United States: An Analysis of Unreported Family Workers

Chiswick, Barry R.; Robinson, RaeAnn Halenda - 2020

Rates of labor force participation in the US in the second half of the nineteenth century among free women were exceedingly (and implausibly) low, about 11 percent. This is due, in part, to social perceptions of working women, cultural and societal expectations of female’s role, and lack of...

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The Occupations of Free Women and Substitution with Enslaved Workers in the Antebellum United States

Chiswick, Barry R.; Robinson, RaeAnn H. - 2022

This paper analyzes the occupational status and distribution of free women in the antebellum United States. It considers both their reported and unreported (imputed) occupations, using the 1/100 IPUMS files from the 1860 Census of Population. After developing and testing the model based on...

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The Evolution of Labor Market Disparities between Hispanic and non-Hispanic Men: 1970-2019

Kospentaris, Ioannis; Stratton, Leslie S. - 2023

We describe how ethnic disparities in the labor market between prime aged Hispanic and non-Hispanic white men have evolved over the last 50 years. Using data from the March CPS, the Census, and the ACS, we examine several employment and earning outcomes. Hispanics have experienced sizable gains...

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The Evolution of Labor Market Disparities between Hispanic and non-Hispanic Men: 1970-2019

Kospentaris, Ioannis; Stratton, Leslie S. - 2023

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Will robot replace workers? Assessing the impact of robots on employment and wages with meta-analysis

Guarascio, Dario; Piccirillo, Alessandro; Reljic, Jelena - 2024

unemployment may be exaggerated or not yet empirically supported. While this does not preclude that robots will be capable of …

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Artificial Intelligence and Employment: A Look into the Crystal Ball

Guarascio, Dario; Reljic, Jelena; Stöllinger, Roman - 2023

This study provides evidence of the employment impact of AI exposure in European regions, addressing one of the many gaps in the emerging literature on AI's effects on employment in Europe. Building upon the occupation-based AI-exposure indicators proposed by Felten et al. (2018, 2019, 2021),...

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Women at Work in the United States Since 1860: An Analysis of Unreported Family Workers

Chiswick, Barry R.; Robinson, RaeAnn Halenda - 2021

Estimated labor force participation rates among free women in the pre-Civil War period were exceedingly low. This is due, in part, to cultural or societal expectations of the role of women and the lack of thorough enumeration by Census takers. This paper develops an augmented labor force...

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What drives employment-unemployment transitions? Evidence from Italian task-based data

Cassandro, Nicola; Centra, Marco; Esposito, Piero; … - 2020

evidence of the determinants of unemployment risk in Italy. We find that workers employed in routine-intensive occupations … (measured with the RTI proposed by Acemoglu and Autor, 2011) do not display – on average - higher unemployment risks than the …. Finally, the distribution of unemployment risk and its relation with routine-task intensity varies significantly across …

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