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We construct and estimate a unified model combining three of the main sources of cross-country income disparities: differences in factor endowments, barriers to technology adoption and the inappropriateness of frontier technologies to local conditions. The key components are different types of...
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industrial robots, affect the demand for workers of different education, age, and gender. We do so by exploiting differences in … that software and robots reduced the demand for low and medium-skill workers, the young, and women …
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What is the effect of robots and tools on employment and inequality? Using natural language processing and an … instrumental variable approach, we discover that robots have led to a sizable decrease in the employment and wages of low … robots and tools over the last 20 years have reduced inequality and increased welfare without a significant effect on …
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affect worker stress. We find a persistent negative relationship, suggesting that AI and robots could reduce the stress level …
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The Covid-19 pandemic has accelerated trends in automation as many employers seek to save on labor costs amid … explored how automation may displace nonspecialized jobs, there is typically less attention paid to how this displacement may … estimated risk of automation and underrepresented in the 30 occupations with the lowest estimated risk of automation. The …
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Does the long-term economic stress of occupational decline cause health problems, or even death? This paper explores this question using Swedish administrative data, and a measure of occupational decline obtained from detailed US data on employment changes over almost 30 years. I investigate...
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We propose and implement a new method to estimate treatment effects in settings where individuals need to be in a certain state (e.g. unemployment) to be eligible for a treatment, treatments may commence at different points in time, and the outcome of interest is realized after the individual...
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The present study adds to the 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 United States:...
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This paper presents a new framework for analyzing automation, robotics, and hightech, which differs from the canonical … effects of an increased use of robotics on inequality. We show that robots affect the "matching effect" between abilities and … education, and in consequence, inequality increases. We also show that wages and productivity gaps between high-tech and low …
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has led to increased flexibility in the Indian labour market enabling firms to employ 'contract' workers widely, often … in flexibility in labour usage and can be judged as a beneficial development for employers, however issues of investment …
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