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period of rapid adoption of industrial robots. Automation reduced relative hourly wages and employment of more exposed … microsimulation model, we find that automation had minor effects on income inequality. Household labour income diversification and tax … and welfare policies largely absorbed labour market shocks caused by automation. Transfers played a key role in cushioning …
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Communication Technologies (ICT) and robots, in 14 European countries between 2010 and 2018. To identify the causal effects of … strategy proposed by Acemoglu and Restrepo (2020). We find that the exposure to ICT and robots increased the shares of young … relatively low ICT-related skills; and for young men in routine manual occupations, who experienced substitutions by robots …
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period marked by the rapid adoption of industrial robots. Automation reduced relative hourly wages and employment of more … input to the EUROMOD microsimulation model, we find that automation had minor effects on income inequality. Household labour … income diversification and tax and welfare policies largely absorbed labour market shocks caused by automation. Transfers …
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The productivity-enhancing effects of digitalisation have generated increased interest in the promotion of digital … technologies. This report provides different estimations for euro area countries of the impact of digital uptake on productivity at … firm level, showing that the adoption of digital technologies could lead to an increase in firms' productivity in the …
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We study the impact of a recent digital automation technology - industrial robotics - on the distribution of sales …, productivity, markups, and profits within industries. Our empirical analysis combines data on the industry-level stock of … industrial robots with firms' balance sheet data for six European countries from 2004 to 2013. We find that robots dis …
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This paper examines the labor market implications of investment in automation over the life cycle of ICT and robot … these automation technologies and identify the phases of acceleration and deceleration in investment. We then examine how … exposure to these automation technologies affects employment and wages across these different phases of their life cycle. We …
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ideology scores from the Manifesto Project. We measure exposure to automation both at the regional level, based on the ex …
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ideology scores from the Manifesto Project. We measure exposure to automation both at the regional level, based on the ex …
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We study the effects of robot exposure on worker flows in 16 European countries. Overall, we find small negative effects on job separations and small positive effects on job findings. Labour costs are shown to be a major driver of cross-country differences: in countries with lower labour costs,...
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We study the effects of robot exposure on worker flows in 16 European countries. Overall, we find small negative effects on job separations and small positive effects on job findings. Labour costs are shown to be a major driver of cross-country differences: the effects of robot exposure are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013198379