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Studies find that technological change has contributed to the decline in manufacturing and to persistent unemployment in many advanced economies. While process innovation can be job-destroying, product innovation can imply the emergence of new firms, new sectors, and thus new jobs. But even for...
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Industry 4.0 is the essence of the fourth Industrial revolution and is happening right now in manufacturing by using cyber-physical systems (CPS) to reach high levels of automation. Industry 4.0 is especially beneficial in highly developed countries in terms of competitive advantage, but causes...
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the large increase in graduate numbers contributed to the substantial reallocation of employment from middling to top … the skill mix of the workforce account for most of the decline in routine employment across the occupational distribution …
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The technology innovation, especially in the case of artificial intelligence, has significantly transformed the work processes and how they are organised and performed. Even if the adoption of advanced technologies usually leads to a higher work performance, there are risks of negative...
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Objective One of the new trends in modern economies is the development of platform-mediated work (PMW), also known as the gig economy. The current article aims to discuss the results of the original survey to determine the number and structure of gig workers among the adult residents of Poland;...
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I investigate the role of labor market flows in the decline of routine employment in Switzerland between 1992 and 2018 … analysis shows that the decline in routine employment was almost entirely driven by decreasing inflow rates from non …-routine into routine employment has decreased for all distin- guished demographic groups, while the propensity to enter the labor …
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In the current era, technological advancement has completely changed many facets of our daily lives, such as the workplace, where modern-day companies are compelled to take proactive actions. Employees face the same challenges by shifting their practices from conventional to more innovative...
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economic growth, education, and social norms. Looking more broadly at improving women's access to quality employment, a …
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employment, wages, and productivity. Evidence generally shows these forces to be offsetting, usually resulting in small … employment and earnings effects and sometimes in large, positive effects on productivity and scale. Foreign ownership usually has …
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on the working week, employment and productivity. A baseline model economy is calibrated to reproduce the cross … higher degree of flexibility in weekly hours. The 2012 reform is found to preserve employment and generate a 1.72% increase … in productivity. In the work-sharing scenario, the increase in employment (1.86%) comes at the expense of a lower …
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