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The Impact of Robots on Labour Market Transitions in Europe

Bachmann, Ronald; Gonschor, Myrielle; Lewandowski, Piotr; … - 2023

We study the effects of robot exposure on worker flows in 16 European countries between 2000-2017. Overall, we find small negative effects on job separations and small positive effects on job findings. Labour costs are a major driver of cross-country differences: the effects of robot exposure...

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Unions and Robots : Automation and the Power of Labor

Balcazar, Carlos Felipe - 2023

International economic competition has led to the increasing adoption of labor-replacing technology. What are the consequences of this development for the political influence of organized labor? I posit that robots make (skilled) workers more productive, increasing the opportunity cost of...

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An Analysis of the Industrial Robot Sector’s Competitiveness in Each Stage of the Value Chain, and Implications for Policy

Park, Sang Soo - 2023

Korea’s industrial robot sector is now the world’s fifth-largest, aided by systematic and consistentgovernment policy over the past decade. It is still heavily reliant on imports for key parts however,and the industry is fragmented, consisting of many small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in...

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Multinationals, Robots, and the Labor Share

Leone, Fabrizio - 2023

Using a panel of Spanish manufacturing firms covering the 1990-2017 period, I show that firms acquired by multinational enterprises start investing in industrial robots, which leads to a reduction of the labor share at the firm and industry levels. The results are explained by a model of robot...

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Claim Success, but Blame the Bot? User Reactions to Service Failure and Recovery in Interactions with Humanoid Service Robots

Mozafari, Nika; Schwede, Melanie; Hammerschmidt, Maik; … - 2023

Service robots are changing the nature of service delivery in the digital economy. However, frequently occurring service failures represent a great challenge to achieve service robot acceptance. To understand how different service outcomes in interactions with service robots affect usage...

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Efficiency and Productivity Gains of Robotic Surgery : The Case of the English National Health Service

Maynou, Laia; McGuire, Alistair; Serra-Sastre, Victoria - 2023

This paper examines the effect of new medical technology (robotic surgery) on efficiency gains and productivity changes for surgical treatment in patients with prostate cancer. We consider three interrelated surgical technologies within the English National Health System: robotic, laparoscopic...

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The Effect of the Korean Robot Act on the Korean Robotics Industry and Its Implications

Cho, Yongwon; Jeong, Man Tae; Park, Sang Soo - 2023

launched in 2008 and under the act, various policies have been adopted to promote the Korean robotics industry. According to … research and development (R&D) investment in the robotics industry. Despite various contributions the law has made, it is to be … Korean robotics market is in the early-stage of the market life-cycle. In this regard, the Korean Robot Law plays an …

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Generative Artificial Intelligence (GAI) Ethics Taxonomy- Applying Chat GPT for Robotic Process Automation (GAI-RPA) as Business Case

Beerbaum, Dirk Otto - 2023

A Robotic Process Automation (RPA) enabled by Generative Artificial intelligence (GAI) has become an important field within the digital eco-system. With the introduction of Chat GPT, which is a public tool developed by Open GAI and its underlying technology Generative Pretrained Transformer...

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Correlational and Configurational Analysis of Factors Influencing Potential Patients’ Attitudes toward Surgical Robots : A Study in the Jordan University Community

de Andrés-Sánchez, Jorge; Almahameed, Ala Ali; … - 2023

Literature on the acceptance of surgical robots (SRs) usually adopts the heathcare workers’ perspective but research from patients’ perception is scarcer. This study fills this gap, by analysing patients’ attitudes towards SRs. It considers three variables from technology acceptance...

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What is it like to be idle versus busy for a service machine?

Söderlund, Magnus - In: Psychology & marketing 40 (2023) 6, pp. 1237-1248

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