COVID-19 and the adoption of technologies in various sectors of the economy, ranging from health care facilities to …

this paper, we examine the potential effect of the rise of robotic technology on health. The results of the analysis … suggest that higher penetration of industrial robots in the local labor market is positively related to the health of the low … of low-skilled individuals reporting poor health. Further analysis suggests that reallocation of tasks and reduction in …

New processes significantly affect firms and workers; however, due to a lack of quantitative indicators, our … of process innovation and that smaller firms are more likely to introduce new processes and are better able to transform … them into higher output. All five process innovation outputs are associated with higher labor productivity and higher sales …

The health status of people is a precious commodity and central to economic, socio-political, and environmental … the portrait of immigrants and natives. In this paper we are concerned with international migration and health outcomes in … insights into the Healthy Immigrant Paradox and the health assimilation of immigrants as we also elucidate selection and …

The relationship between physical activity and child health and development is well-documented, yet the extant … literature provides limited causal insight into the amount of physical activity considered optimal for improving any given health … comprehensive set of health, non-cognitive development, and academic outcomes of children and adolescents. Applying an individual …

features. First, the task approach from labor economics is reformulated and integrated into a growth model. Second, the … novel features it is shown that (i) AI automation can decrease the share of labor income no matter the size of the … elasticity of substitution between AI and labor, and (ii) when this elasticity is high, AI will unambiguously reduce aggregate …

shock for Italian firms. We take advantage of unique panel data on 7,800 companies between January 2020 {right before the … this short time window to capture the impact of firms' idiosyncratic shock. Our analysis shows disproportionate effects for …