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This paper investigates how investment in automation-intensive goods impacts on worker flows at the firm level and …, their imports, and employer-employee data for French manufacturing employers over 2002-2015, we identify "automation spikes …" using imports of intermediates embedding automation technologies and then test their impact on employment dynamics. We find …
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The purpose of this paper is to investigate the mechanisms underlying the relationship between automation and labor … realize the tasks necessary for the production process. The two scenarios considered, with and without automation, confirm … that automation is indeed a key factor in polarizing the structure of skill demand and increasing wage inequality. This …
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This paper represents one of the first attempts at building a direct measure of occupational exposure to robotic labour-saving technologies. After identifying robotic and labour-saving robotic patents retrieved by Montobbio et al., (2022), the underlying 4-digit CPC definitions are employed in...
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This paper investigates the impact of investment in automation- and AI- related goods on within-firm wage inequality in … event-study approach on a sample of firms importing automation and AI-related goods, we find that spike events related to … the adoption of automation- or AI-related capital goods are not followed by an increase in within-firm wage nor in gender …
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We propose a novel approach to the statistical analysis of simulation models and, especially, agent-based models (ABMs). Our main goal is to provide a fully automated and model-independent tool-kit to inspect simulations and perform counter-factual analysis. Our approach: (i) is easy-to-use by...
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, particularly in the context of automation processes. We conduct a fieldwork analysis of three workplaces situated in Italy, each … the implementation of automation technology, such as Automated Guided Vehicles. Employing a qualitative analysis that …
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European automotive industry, and the political economy of the actors behind such transition. We first describe the automation …
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We investigate the impact of investment in automation-related goods on adopting and non-adopting firms in the Italian … exploiting import lumpiness in product categories linked to automation and AI technologies. We find a positive average adoption … medium and large firms. We complete the framework with a 5-digit sector-level analysis showing that adopting automation …
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The present study contributes to the existing literature on routinization and employment by capturing within-occupation task changes over the period 1980-2010. The main contributions are the measurement of such changes and the combination of two data sources on occupational task content for the...
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Contrarily to the notion of a natural tendency of deindustrialization, this paper, documenting the existence of a variety of patterns of deindustrialization, performs a cross-country, long-term analysis. Looking at industrial sectors and their technological characteristics, categorised on the...
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