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This work investigates the impact that the change in the exposure to robots had on the Italian local employment dynamics over the period 2011-2018. A novel empirical strategy focusing on a match between occupations' activities and robots' applications at a high level of disaggregation makes it...
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This study conducts a meta-analysis to assess the effects of robotization on employment and wages, compiling data from 33 studies with 644 estimates on employment and a subset of 19 studies with 195 estimates on wages. We identify a publication bias towards negative outcomes, especially...
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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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Despite significant headwinds from population aging in most advanced economies (AEs), labor force participation rates show remarkably divergent trajectories both across countries and across different groups of workers. Participation increased sharply among prime-age women and, more recently,...
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(AI) and robotics on employment. The first interest of this study is to ascertain, from the viewpoint of workers, what … and robotics. The second interest is to identify, from the viewpoint of consumers, what types of services are likely to be … replaced by AI and robotics. The results suggest that malleable/adaptable high skills acquired through higher education …
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Economic activities based on the invention, production and distribution of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies have recently emerged worldwide. Yet, little is known about the innovative activities, location and growth performance of AI innovators. This chapter aims to map and analyse the...
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This paper addresses the directions to follow when designing new educational systems and school-lowork transition regimes to adhere to the needs of Industry 4. 0. Although a high level of general education will be important for its training content to develop adaptability, it is not the only...
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classification and semantic analysis, this paper aims to map the current knowledge base centred on robotics and AI technologies … base is characterised by a considerable - but not impressively widespread - degree of pervasiveness; (iii) robotics and AI …
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What drives investment in automation technologies? This paper documents a positive relationship between labor-friendly institutions and investment in industrial robots in a sample of developing and advanced economies. Institutions explain a substantial share of cross-country variation in...
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The interplay between labor institutions and the firm-level adoption of new technologies such as robotics and other … firm size cutoff, although the results are sensitive to the type of technology and specification choices. We also document … composition of employment. Taken together, our findings cast doubts on the idea that ER discourages technology adoption. On the …
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