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Automation, Skills and the Future of Work : What do Workers Think?

Mulas-Granados, Carlos - 2020

automation, especially in emerging markets. We find that negative perceptions about automation are prevalent among workers who … over automation are positively viewed by workers with higher levels of job satisfaction, higher educational attainment, and … from countries with stronger labor protection. Workers with positive perceptions of automation also tend to respond that re …

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Is Technology Widening the Gender Gap? Automation and the Future of Female Employment

Brussevich, Mariya - 2019

average, perform more routine tasks than men?tasks that are more prone to automation. To quantify the impact on jobs, we … relate data on task composition at work to occupation level estimates of probability of automation, controlling for a rich … workers are at a significantly higher risk for displacement by automation than male workers, with 11 percent of the female …

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Technology and the Future of Work

Peralta-Alva, Adrian - 2018

This paper uses a DSGE model to simulate the impact of technological change on labor markets and income distribution. It finds that technological advances offers prospects for stronger productivity and growth, but brings risks of increased income polarization. This calls for inclusive policies...

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Pandemics and Automation : Will the Lost Jobs Come Back?

Saadi-Sedik, Tahsin; Yoo, Jiae - 2021

COVID-19 has exacerbated concerns about the rise of the robots and other automation technologies. This paper analyzes …

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Will Working from Home Stick in Developing Economies?

Conesa Martinez, Marina; Narita, Futoshi; Papageorgiou, … - 2023

In developing economies, a shift to working from home during the COVID-19 pandemic varies substantially. An increase in teleworking days per week ranges from 0.7 to 17.6 percentage points across 10 developing countries covered by an online survey to about 500 respondents per country. An...

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Mining Revenues and Inclusive Development in Guinea

Badel, Alejandro; Fredman Lyngaas, Rachel - 2023

What are the potential benefits of increasing the taxation of a foreign extractive sector? This paper applies this question to the case of Guinea by using a multi-sector macro-inequality model with heterogeneous agents. We quantify the long-run equilibrium impact of additional taxation when the...

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Inflation and Monetary Policy in a Low-Income and Fragile State : The Case of Guinea

Carriere-Swallow, Yan; Koumtingué, Nelnan Fidèle; … - 2023

Inflation in low-income countries is often high and volatile, driven by external shocks. In addition, inflation in fragile states is affected by highly volatile domestic factors that complicate monetary policy’s ability to deliver price stability. We estimate the drivers of inflation in Guinea...

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Are We Heading for Another Debt Crisis in Low-Income Countries? Debt Vulnerabilities : Today vs the Pre-HIPC Era

Chuku, Chuku; Samal, Prateek; Saito, Joyce; Hakura, Dalia; … - 2023

There are growing concerns that 25 years after the launch of the HIPC debt relief initiative, many low-income countries are again facing high debt vulnerabilities. This paper compares debt vulnerabilities in LICs today versus those on the eve of the HIPC Initiative and examines challenges to a...

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And Schumpeter Said, "this is How Thou Shalt Grow" : The Further Quest for Economic Growth in Poor Countries

Beaugrand, Philippe - 2013

The paper reviews the stylized facts on economic growth gathered by Easterly and Levine in their 2001 joint paper and illustrates some of the points made on the basis of data from the IMF's World Economic Outlook on real growth and per capita GDP since 1970. The data show that the growth...

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Evaluating Alternative Approaches to Poverty Alleviation : Rice Tariffs Versus Targeted Transfers in Madagascar

Coady, David P. - 2012

This paper uses a partial equilibrium framework to evaluate the relative efficiency, distributional and revenue implications of rice tariffs and targeted transfers in Madagascar, especially in the context of identifying their respective roles for poverty alleviation. Although there are likely to...

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