This Open Access book provides a thorough analysis of the quality of work in the Netherlands, and suggests policy proposals to promote and facilitate good work for more people. New technology, flexibilization and the intensification of work will have significant consequences for all those who...

We use French data over the 1994-2013 period to study how imports of industrial robots affect firm-level outcomes. Compared to other firms operating in the same 5-digit sector, robot importers are larger, more productive, and employ a higher share of managers and engineers. Over time, robot...

The interplay between labour institutions and the adoption of automation technologies remains poorly understood. Specifically, there is little evidence on how the nature of industrial relations shapes technological choices at the workplace level. Using a large sample of more than 20000 European...

We develop a dynamic general equilibrium model where robots can be substituted for unskilled labor and the government uses the tax revenues for social capital investment and compensation of those who do not work. As the main novelty of the paper, we consider that social capital augments the...

The research and development of citrus fruit harvesting robots to realize the automation and intelligence of harvesting are of great significance for reducing the labor cost and labor risk of harvesting. In this paper, the citrus fruit harvesting robot with running module, vision module,...