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Automation and income inequality in Europe
Doorley, Karina; Gromadzki, Jan; Lewandowski, Piotr; … - 2023
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014391207
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Automation and income inequality in Europe
Doorley, Karina; Gromadzki, Jan; Lewandowski, Piotr; … - 2024
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014501270
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Systemic usury and the European Consumer Credit Directive
Neuberger, Doris; Reifner, Udo - 2019
Usury is a frequent occurrence in consumer credit markets and particularly affects low-income households. Systemic usury exploits poverty by shifting usury into additional products and leveraging usury gains by stringing together individual loan agreements. This paper reviews the economic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012027590
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Systemic usury and the European Consumer Credit Directive
Neuberger, Doris; Reifner, Udo - 2019 - Revised version Dezember 2019
Usury is a frequent occurrence in consumer credit markets and particularly affects low-income households. Although the term usury conjures images of a greedy individual consciously acting to exploit the weak bargaining position of another by deceitful and even fraudulent means, we consider it as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012132614
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Systemic usury and the European consumer credit directive
Neuberger, Doris; Reifner, Udo - In: Vierteljahrshefte zur Wirtschaftsforschung 89 (2020) 1, pp. 115-132
Usury is a frequent occurrence in consumer credit markets and particularly affects low-income households. Although the term usury conjures images of a greedy individual consciously acting to exploit the weak bargaining position of another by deceitful and even fraudulent means, we consider it as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012507235
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Does Robotization Affect Job Quality? Evidence from European Regional Labour Markets
Antón, José-Ignacio; Fernández-Macías, Enrique; … - 2021
Whereas there are recent papers on the effect of robot adoption on employment and wages, there is no evidence on how robots affect non-monetary working conditions. We explore the impact of robot adoption on several domains of non-monetary working conditions in Europe over the period 1995–2005...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013314731
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Does robotization affect job quality? : evidence from European regional labour markets
Antón Pérez, José Ignacio; Fernández-Macías, Enrique; … - 2020 - This version: 16th December 2020
Whereas there are recent papers on the effect of robot adoption on employment and wages, there is no evidence on how robots affect non-monetary working conditions. We explore the impact of robot adoption on several domains of non-monetary working conditions in Europe over the period 1995-2005...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012387605
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Does robotization affect job quality? : evidence from European regional labour markets
Antón Pérez, José Ignacio; Fernández-Macías, Enrique; … - 2020 - This version: 16th December 2020
Whereas there are recent papers on the effect of robot adoption on employment and wages, there is no evidence on how robots affect non-monetaryworking conditions. We explore the impact of robot adoption on several domains of non-monetary working conditions in Europe over the period 1995-2005...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012388530
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Does robotization affect job quality? : evidence from European regional labour markets
Antón Pérez, José Ignacio; Fernández-Macías, Enrique; … - 2020
Whereas there are recent papers on the effect of robot adoption on employment and wages, there is no evidence on how robots affect non-monetary working conditions. We explore the impact of robot adoption on several domains of non-monetary working conditions in Europe over the period 1995-2005...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012389778
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Patent Law, HIPPO, and the Biodiversity Crisis
Torrance, Andrew W. - 2014
Planet earth is host to a dazzling variety of living organisms. This diversity of life, or – biodiversity, is vital to the survival and prosperity of humanity, supplying such vital amenities as food, clothing, shelter, natural biochemicals useful in medicine, industry, and agriculture, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014196348