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influences firms' employment practices. Drawing on a comprehensive dataset from the Digital Platform Survey (DPS), administered … platform participation has a positive correlation with the use of non-standard employment relationships (NSERs). Specifically … literature on how firms respond to the risks of platform-based intermediation and contributes to ongoing debates about the labor …
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What have we learned, from the most recent years of debate and analysis, of the future of work being threatened by technology? This paper presents a critical review of the empirical literature and outlines both lessons learned and challenges ahead. Far from being fully exhaustive, the review...
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structuralist view of structural change - framed as changes in the employment shares of different industries - is combined with the … industries are assessed against an employment-based industrial complexity index. The results indicate that Ghana's export and … resources. While exports of manufactured goods have increased, employment in formal and informal manufacturing has contracted …
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and digitalization processes in the automotive sector and their effects on employment. Possible scenarios are analysed … understand the employment effects. We then consider the role of the regulatory push in fostering the transition of the automotive …
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This study conducts a meta-analysis to assess the effects of robotization on employment and wages, compiling data from … 33 studies with 644 estimates on employment and a subset of 19 studies with 195 estimates on wages. We identify a … minimal. Thus, concerns about the disruptive effects of robots on employment and the risk of widespread technological …
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effect on the adopters' employment and on the value-added and average wage, whereas sales and productivity increase after an … initial drop with a net positive effect five years after adoption. Crucially, the employment effect is heterogeneous across … technologies has an overall negative effect on aggregate employment. …
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In this work, we investigate the interrelations among technology, output and employment in the different states of the … effects of productivity shocks on employment are abundantly negative in downturns, but they are not significantly different …
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In this work, we test the employment impact of distinct types of innovative investments using a representative sample … statistically significant evidence of the expected labor-friendly nature of innovation. More in detail, neither R&D nor investment … significant employment effect. However, the job-creation impact of R&D expenditures becomes highly significant when the focus is …
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connected economy. Disembodied technological change turns out to positively affect employment dynamics in the "upstream …
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and changes in employment. The levels of digitalization and routineness of occupations in 796 5-digit ISCO professional … showing the best employment performances (although this holds only in manufacturing sector). Both the descriptive and … econometric evidences show a negative employment dynamics among professions combining high level of digitalization and routineness. …
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