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The present technological revolution, characterized by the pervasive and growing presence of robots, automation … updated picture of main empirical evidence on the relationship between new technologies and employment both in terms of …
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concern is whether labor can win a 'race against the robots' and the longer-term concern is whether an artificial general …
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Technological Change theory. While there exists heterogeneity across countries, only very few countries show a decline in employment … find that on average employment shares have increased in occupations more exposed to AI. This is particularly the case for … shares of occupations more exposed to AI-enabled automation. Country heterogeneity for this result seems to be linked to the …
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In this work, we test the employment impact of distinct types of innovative investments using a representative sample … significant employment effect. However, the job-creation impact of R&D expenditures becomes highly significant when the focus is …
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Whereas there are recent papers on the effect of robot adoption on employment and wages, there is no evidence on how … robots affect non-monetary working conditions. We explore the impact of robot adoption on several domains of non … Working Conditions Survey. In order to deal with the possible endogeneity of robot deployment, we employ an instrumental …
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Communication Technologies (ICT) and robots, in 14 European countries between 2010 and 2018. To identify the causal effects of … strategy proposed by Acemoglu and Restrepo (2020). We find that the exposure to ICT and robots increased the shares of young … and prime-aged women in employment and the wage bills of particular sectors, but reduced the shares of older women and …
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In recent times the employment effects of technical progress raised much intention. Will recent productivity gains lead … employment if product demand is elastic. It is accompanied, however, by shrinkage of employment if product demand is inelastic. A …, employment and national income for Germany provided by the Federal Statistical Office. We estimate Marshallian type demand …
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In a model with robots, and automatable and complementary human tasks, we examine robot-labour substitutions and show … relationship for thirteen countries and find that countries with poor innovation capabilities substitute robots for workers much …-manufacturing robots and workers are stronger substitutes than in other manufacturing …
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model of robot adoption in which robots and low-skill workers are substitutes. As many advanced economies are facing labor …Changes in the supply of low-skill labor may affect robot adoption by firms. We test this hypothesis by exploiting an … of migrants in a municipality leads to fewer imports of robots at the firm-level. We rationalize this finding in a simple …
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, when detectable, result from the even faster declines in employment …
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