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Measuring and Interpreting Trends in the Division of Labour in the Netherlands
Akçomak, I. Semih; Borghans, Lex; ter Weel, Bas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
it explains a substantial part of the increase in offshoring tasks abroad. … equilibrium of forces that glue tasks together or unbundle them. Communication costs are the main force for clustering or gluing … together tasks; comparative advantage stimulates unbundling and specialisation. The estimates suggest that on average the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009003945
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The Skill Complementarity of Broadband Internet
Akerman, Anders; Gaarder, Ingvil; Mogstad, Magne - 2013
executing nonroutine abstract tasks, and substitutes for unskilled workers in performing routine tasks. When we use our …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010328931
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The Impact of Robots on Labour Market Transitions in Europe
Bachmann, Ronald; Gonschor, Myrielle; Lewandowski, Piotr; … - 2022
pronounced for workers in occupations intensive in routine manual or routine cognitive tasks, but are insignificant in … occupations intensive in non-routine cognitive tasks. For young and old workers in countries with low levels of labour costs …
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The Skill Complementarity of Broadband Internet
Akerman, Anders; Gaarder, Ingvil; Mogstad, Magne - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
executing nonroutine abstract tasks, and substitutes for unskilled workers in performing routine tasks. When we use our …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010752451
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Racing With or Against the Machine? Evidence from Europe
Gregory, Terry; Salomons, Anna; Zierahn, Ulrich - 2019
A fast-growing literature shows that digital technologies are displacing labor from routine tasks, raising concerns …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011984623
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De-Routinization in the Fourth Industrial Revolution - Firm-Level Evidence
Arntz, Melanie; Genz, Sabrina; Gregory, Terry; Lehmer, … - 2024
This paper examines the extent to which aggregate-level de-routinization can be attributed to firm-level technology adoption during the most recent technological expansion. We use administrative data and a novel firm survey to distinguish frontier technologies from older technologies. We find...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014533967
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Automation and Income Inequality in Europe
Doorley, Karina; Gromadzki, Jan; Lewandowski, Piotr; … - 2023
We study the effects of robot penetration on household income inequality in 14 European countries between 2006–2018, a period marked by the rapid adoption of industrial robots. Automation reduced relative hourly wages and employment of more exposed demographic groups, similarly to the results...
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Does the Adoption of Complex Software Impact Employment Composition and the Skill Content of Occupations? Evidence from Chilean Firms
Almeida, Rita K.; Fernandes, Ana Margarida; Viollaz, Mariana - 2017
on the use of routine tasks by middle-educated workers, this study focuses on a measure of complex software that is … typically used by more educated workers in cognitive and nonroutine tasks for client, production, and business management. The … administrative and unskilled production workers. This reallocation leads to an increase in the use of routine and manual tasks and a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011744728
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The Effect of Computer Use on Job Quality: Evidence from Europe
Menon, Seetha; Salvatori, Andrea; Zwysen, Wouter - 2018
This paper studies changes in computer use and job quality in the EU-15 between 1995 and 2015. We document that while the proportion of workers using computers has increased from 40% to more than 60% over twenty years, there remain significant differences between countries even within the same...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011816570
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The division of labor and the market for organizations
Lindbeck, Assar - 2000
-tasking, which is shown to arise from informational and technological complementarities among tasks as well as from the exploitation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011420715