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The reassuring effect of firms' technological innovations on workers' job insecurity

Caselli, Mauro; Fracasso, Andrea; Marcolin, Arianna; … - 2021

We analyse how the adoption of technological innovations correlates with workers' perceived levels of job insecurity, and what factors mediate such relationship, by exploiting a recent, large and dedicated survey distributed to a representative sam- ple of Italian workers. The dedicated survey...

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Institutions, holdup and automation

Presidente, Giorgio - 2021

What drives investment in automation technologies? This paper documents a positive relationship between labor … substantial share of cross-country variation in automation. The relationship between institutions and robots is stronger in sunk … invest in automation is to thwart rent appropriation by labor. As a consequence, policies aimed at supporting workers …

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Labour and technology at the time of Covid-19 : can artificial intelligence mitigate the need for proximity?

Carbonero, Francesco; Scicchitano, Sergio - 2021

role of automation in supporting the work of humans but the potential of Artificial Intelligence (AI) to influence the need …

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Technological unemployment revisited : automation in a search and matching framework

Cords, Dario; Prettner, Klaus - 2019

Will low-skilled workers be replaced by automation? To answer this question, we set up a search and matching model that … features two skill types of workers and includes automation capital as an additional production factor. Automation capital is a … show that the accumulation of automation capital decreases the labor market tightness in the low-skilled labor market and …

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Robots, meaning, and self-determination

Nikolova, Milena; Cnossen, Femke; Nikolaev, Boris - 2022

We are the first to examine the impact of robotization on work meaningfulness and autonomy, competence, and relatedness, which are key for motivation and human flourishing at work. Using worker-level data from 13 industries in 20 European countries and OLS and instrumental variables estimations,...

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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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Labour-saving automation and occupational exposure : a text-similarity measure

Montobbio, Fabio; Staccioli, Jacopo; Virgillito, Maria … - 2021

This paper represents one of the first attempts at building a direct measure of occupational exposure to robotic labour-saving technologies. After identifying robotic and LS robotic patents retrieved by Montobbio et al. (2022), the underlying 4-digit CPC definitions are employed in order to...

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Robots for economic development

Calì, Massimiliano; Presidente, Giorgio - 2021

Recent evidence suggests that automation technologies entail a trade-off between productivity gains and employment …. It shows significant productivity and employment gains from automation in Indonesian manufacturing during the years 2008 … robot adoption. As a result, the benefits from automation could be particularly large for countries at early stages of …

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Robots, digitalization, and worker voice

Belloc, Filippo; Burdín, Gabriel; Landini, Fabio - 2022

The interplay between labor institutions and the firm-level adoption of new technologies such as robotics and other advanced digital tools remains poorly understood. Using a cross-sectional sample of more than 20000 European establishments, this paper documents a positive association between...

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Calling older workers back to work

Grigoli, Francesco; Koczan, Zsoka; Topalova, Petia - 2021

services also contributed, while automation weighed on their participation. …

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