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back to the home economy but without improving low-skilled wages and without creating jobs for low-skilled workers. Since … skill premium and increasing inequality. We develop a measure for reshoring activity at the macro-level and, using data from … sectors, an increase by one robot per 1000 workers is associated with a 3.5% increase of reshoring activity. Using robots in …
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employment variation to provide a causal estimate of winning a PPC on firms' employment. Winning a PPC has a small positive … impact on a firm's short-run employment. The study investigates mechanisms and heterogeneity that can explain the initial …
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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 … adoption, such as Indonesia. Second, the analysis finds significant positive employment spillovers from automation in …
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This work investigates the impact that the change in the exposure to robots had on the Italian local employment … robots' activities, rather than on their industries of employment, the analysis reveals for the first time reinstatement … dynamics over the period 2011-2018. A novel empirical strategy focusing on a match between occupations' activities and robots …
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minimal. Thus, concerns about the disruptive effects of robots on employment and the risk of widespread technological …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 …
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This paper analyzes the relationship between economic growth, inequality and redistribution. In a cross-country setting … for 25 EU countries over the period 2007-2019, we show that market income inequality is associated with higher growth in …
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This study examines the influence of the statutory minimum wage on labor demand elasticities regarding low-skilled workers. For this, a regression discontinuity analysis is conducted using company panel data from 2013 to 2018. In addition, a possible endogeneity of the remuneration for...
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positive effects on training intensity and process innovation and no evidence of employment losses or changes in the … composition of employment. Taken together, our findings cast doubts on the idea that ER discourages technology adoption. On the …
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suggest that higher penetration of industrial robots in the local labor market is positively related to the health of the low …-skilled population. A ten percent increase in robots per 1,000 workers is associated with an approximately 10% reduction in the fraction …
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To combat COVID-19 the entire world has resorted to global lockdown implying restriction on international labor migration and trade. This paper aims to check the effect of such restrictions on the unemployment of unskilled labor in the source country. In competitive general equilibrium framework...
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