exogenous variation in Protestantism due to a county's or town's distance to Wittenberg, the birthplace of the Reformation …

religious denomination on labour market outcomes, by estimating the differential impact of Protestantism versus Catholicism on … cultural background has a significant effect on the individual propensity to become an entrepreneur, with Protestantism …

humans can be productively employed. Recent technological change has been biased towards automation, with insufficient focus … tendency is to develop AI in the direction of further automation, but this might mean missing out on the promise of the "right …

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 …

developments, some argue that large shares of jobs are “at risk of automation”, spurring public fears of massive job-losses and …. First, the chapter discusses estimates of automation potentials, showing that many estimates are severely upward biased …

We investigate the impact of robot adoption on electoral outcomes in 14 Western European countries, between 1993 and … ideology scores from the Manifesto Project. We measure exposure to automation both at the regional level, based on the ex …-sample employment patterns in the region of residence. We instrument robot adoption in each country using the pace of robot adoption in …

automation further compound the challenge of job creation, which is already quite sizable in historical perspective. Failure to …

survey (ESJS), jobs are bundled according to their estimated risk of automation. The paper builds on the methodology of … very high risk of automation. The distribution of high automatability across industries and occupations is also found to be …

governance, (iii) value alignment and the impending robot apocalypse, (iv) explainability and accountability for automated … decision-making, and (v) automation and the impact of AI on the labor market and on wage inequality. …