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This paper provides estimates of the impact of demographic change on labor productivity growth, relying on annual data over 1961-2018 for a panel f 90 advanced and emerging economies. We find that increases in both the young and old population shares have significantly negative effects on labor...
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This paper explores the effects of industrial robots and information and communication technology (ICT) on regional …-manufacturing industries. Industrial robots show negative employment effects in local manufacturing industries, but positive employment effects …
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Robotics has been redefining the production process across manufacturing industries, raising serious concern about the future of jobs and the garment sector is not isolated. The recent innovations such as "Sewbot" along with other Computer Numeric Control machines have increased the risk of...
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We study the impact of industrial robots on employment and wages in six European Union countries, that make up 85 ….5 percent of the EU industrial robots market. In theory, robots can directly displace workers from performing specific tasks … which of the two labour market effects dominates. We find that one additional robot per thousand workers reduces the …
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. Differences in providers’ skills may cause variation in patient outcomes. The adoption of innovations, like robots, can attenuate … otherwise. I show that, in England, the diffusion of surgical robots coincided with an improvement in average surgical … this pattern can be attributed to the adoption of robots using the universe of inpatient admissions to the National Health …
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combating the COVID-19 pandemic. However, certain technologies, such as robots, can negatively impact employment by replacing …, robot adoption, three types of digital assets, and total factor productivity, on migrant employment. The key findings reveal … relative to the overall workforce. While robots do replace jobs, their impact on native workers surpasses that of migrant …
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