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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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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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Is an Army of Robots Marching on Chinese Jobs?
Giuntella, Osea - 2019
a large negative impact of robot exposure on employment and wages of Chinese workers. Effects are concentrated in the …
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Robots, Labor Markets, and Family Behavior
Anelli, Massimo - 2019
on regional industry specialization before the advent of robots combined with the growth of robot adoption by industry … regions affected by intense robot penetration experienced a decrease in new marriages, and an increase in both divorce and …-of-wedlock births. Our findings are consistent with the hypothesis that the changes in labor markets triggered by robot adoption …
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Robots at Work
Graetz, Georg - 2015
robot use with a measure of workers' replaceability by robots, which is based on the tasks prevalent in industries before …
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Robots and the Gender Pay Gap in Europe
Aksoy, Cevat Giray - 2020
robots on the gender pay gap using data from 20 European countries. We show that robot adoption increases both male and …
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