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How Robots Change Within-Firm Wage Inequality
Barth, Erling - 2020
Using novel matched employer-employee register data with firm-level information on the introduction of industrial robots, this paper analysis the impact of robots on the wages of workers in the manufacturing sector. The results show that industrial robots increase wages for high-skilled workers...
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Immigration and Work Schedules : Theory and Evidence
Bond, Timothy - 2020
price of day tasks increases as their supply becomes relatively more scarce. We provide empirical support for our theory …
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Flexible Working and Couples' Coordination of Time Schedules
Bryan, Mark L. - 2014
Using previously unexploited data on time scheduling in the employment and household contexts, we investigate the effect of flexible working on couples' coordination of their daily work time schedules in the UK. We consider three distinct dimensions of flexible working: flexibility of daily...
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Wage Determination and the Bite of Collective Contracts in Italy and Spain : Evidence from the Metalworking Industry
Adamopoulou, Effrosyni - 2020
In several OECD countries employer federations and unions fix skill-specific wage floors for all workers in an industry. One view of those "explicit" contracts argues that the prevailing wage structure reflects the labor market conditions back at the time when those contracts were bargained,...
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Spillover Effects of Energy Transition Metals in Chile
Agnese, Pablo; Rios, Francisco - 2023
This paper examines the impact of spillover effects of energy transition metals on the Chilean economy. With the increasing demand for metals like copper and lithium due to the growth in renewable energies and electromobility, metal abundant countries like Chile must ready themselves to remain...
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Are Robots Stealing Our Jobs?
Pellegrino, Gabriele - 2017
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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Robots and the Origin of their Labour-Saving Impact
Montobbio, Fabio - 2020
This paper investigates the presence of explicit labour-saving heuristics within robotic patents. It analyses innovative actors engaged in robotic technology and their economic environment (identity, location, industry), and identifies the technological fields particularly exposed to...
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Industrial Robots, Workers' Safety, and Health
Gihleb, Rania - 2020
one standard deviation increase in robot exposure reduces work-related injuries by approximately 16%. These results are ….We also show that the US counties that are more exposed to robot penetration experience a significant increase in drug- or … outcomes in the US. Employing individual longitudinal data from Germany, we exploit within-individual changes in robot exposure …
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Robots at Work : Automatable and Non Automatable Jobs
Josten, Cecily - 2019
This study builds on Autor and Dorn's (2013) classification of automatable work at the three-digit occupation code level to identify additional jobs that will be automatable in the next decade by drawing on patent data. Based on this new classification the study provides estimates of the share...
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We Were the Robots : Automation and Voting Behavior in Western Europe
Anelli, Massimo - 2019
We investigate the impact of robot adoption on electoral outcomes in 14 Western European countries, between 1993 and …-sample employment patterns in the region of residence. We instrument robot adoption in each country using the pace of robot adoption in … other countries. Higher exposure to robot adoption is found to increase support for nationalist and radicalright parties …
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