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Occupational choice and the dynamics of human capital, inequality and growth
Dvorkin, Maximiliano A.; Monge-Naranjo, Alexander - 2019
assignment of workers to tasks to quantitatively assess the aggregate impact of automation and other task-biased technological … inequality and lower output as occupation mobility has provided an "escape" for the losers from automation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011998090
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Artificial intelligence and worker stress : evidence from Germany
Koch, Michael; Lodefalk, Magnus - 2024
We use individual survey data providing detailed information on stress, technology adoption, and work, worker, and employer characteristics, in combination with recent measures of AI and robot exposure, to investigate how new technologies affect worker stress. We find a persistent negative...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014575594
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"Mirror, mirror on the wall: which jobs will aI replace after all?" : a new index of occupational exposure
Benítez-Rueda, Miguel; Parrado, Eric - 2024
innovations could replace job tasks and skills. The index not only considers task automation, but also contextual factors such as …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015051360
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Are we nearly there yet? : new technology adoption and labor demand in Peru
Novella, Rafael; Rosas, David; Alvarado, Alfredo - 2019
Forecasts about the effect of new technologies on labor demand are generally pessimistic. However, little is known about the current level of adoption and the effect on labor demand, particularly in developing countries. This paper exploits a recent employer survey in Peru to offer empirical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012098120
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Automation trends and labor markets in Latin America
Brambilla, Irene; César, Andrés; Falcone, Guillermo; … - 2023
This paper studies the effects of automation of production on labor market outcomes, and whether there is an effect of … automation on functional and personal inequality in Latin America. The paper combines several data sources and empirical … are more likely to be affected by automation, using indexes of task routinization by occupation; and ii) the effects of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014455267
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Artificial intelligence, tasks, skills and wages : worker-level evidence from Germany
Engberg, Erik; Koch, Michael; Lodefalk, Magnus; … - 2023
) and automation (robots). Workers in occupations with high AI exposure, perform different activities and face different …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014445769
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AI unboxed and jobs : a novel measure and firm-level evidence from three countries
Engberg, Erik; Görg, Holger; Lodefalk, Magnus; Javed, … - 2023
We unbox developments in artificial intelligence (AI) to estimate how exposure to these developments affect firm-level labour demand, using detailed register data from Denmark, Portugal and Sweden over two decades. Based on data on AI capabilities and occupational work content, We develop and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014445928
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How scary is the risk of automation? : evidence from a large survey experiment
Cattaneo, Maria Alejandra; Gschwendt, Christian; … - 2024
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014515852
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Worker mobility and labour market opportunities
Dias, Mónica Costa; Johnson-Watts, Ella; Joyce, Robert; … - 2021
We develop a measure of labour market opportunities for heterogenous types of worker, exploiting information on their suitability different jobs encoded in historical patterns of worker mobility. We provide a theoretical foundation for our measure, which features naturally in a general random...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012623744
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The wage-productivity gap revisited : is the labour share neutral to employment?
Karanassou, Marika; Sala, Hector - 2010
This paper challenges the prevailing view of the neutrality of the labour income share to labour demand, and investigates its impact on the evolution of employment. Whilst maintaining the assumption of a unitary long-run elasticity of wages with respect to productivity, we demonstrate that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003990440