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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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been neglected in the recent literature on the wage and distributional consequences of automation, where the labor market …
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Changes in the supply of low-skill labor may affect robot adoption by firms. We test this hypothesis by exploiting an exogenous increase in the local labor supply induced by a large influx of immigrants into Danish municipalities. Using the Danish employer-employee matched dataset over the...
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The present technological revolution, characterized by the pervasive and growing presence of robots, automation …
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We present a framework for understanding the effects of automation and other types of technological changes on labor … allocation of tasks to capital and labor – the task content of production. Automation, which enables capital to replace labor in … a result, automation always reduces the labor share in value added and may reduce labor demand even as it raises …
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In a randomized field experiment, we provide personalized suggestions about suitable alternative occupations to long-term unemployed job seekers in the UK. The suggestions are automatically generated, integrated in an online job search platform, and fed into actual search queries. Effects on the...
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are those that are the safest from automation. We also find that jobs that require 'people' engagement interacted with …
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In this work, we test the employment impact of distinct types of innovative investments using a representative sample of Spanish manufacturing firms over the period 2002-2013. Our GMM-SYS estimates generate various results, which are partially in contrast with the extant literature. Indeed,...
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automation further compound the challenge of job creation, which is already quite sizable in historical perspective. Failure to …
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We analyze the effect of automation and offshorability on unemployment duration and post-unemployment outcomes such as … find re-employment, our results show that offshorability (but not automation) affects future job duration and wages …
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