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The Past and Future of Work: How History Can Inform the Age of Automation
Schneider, Benjamin; Vipond, Hillary - 2023
of how automation and artificial intelligence could reshape society and the economy. However, technological shifts in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014469557
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Hourly Wages in Crowdworking: A Meta-Analysis
Hornuf, Lars; Vrankar, Daniel - 2022
accounting for unpaid work, such as searching for tasks and communicating with requesters, tend to be significantly lower than …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013177574
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Hourly Wages in Crowdworking : A Meta-Analysis
Hornuf, Lars; Vrankar, Daniel - 2022
accounting for unpaid work, such as searching for tasks and communicating with requesters, tend to be significantly lower than …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013307208
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What Happened to U.S. Business Dynamism?
Akcigit, Ufuk; Ates, Sina T. - 2019
In the past several decades, the U.S. economy has witnessed a number of striking trends that indicate a rising market concentration and a slowdown in business dynamism. In this paper, we make an attempt to understand potential common forces behind these empirical regularities through the lens of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012141055
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What Happened to U.S. Business Dynamism?
Akcigit, Ufuk - 2019
In the past several decades, the U.S. economy has witnessed a number of striking trends that indicate a rising market concentration and a slowdown in business dynamism. In this paper, we make an attempt to understand potential common forces behind these empirical regularities through the lens of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012861420
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Racing With or Against the Machine? Evidence from Europe
Gregory, Terry; Salomons, Anna; Zierahn, Ulrich - 2018
A fast-growing literature shows that digital technologies are displacing labor from routine tasks, raising concerns …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011931997
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The division of labor and the market for organizations
Lindbeck, Assar; Snower, Dennis J. - 2000
The paper examines of the division of labor within firms. It provides an explanation of the pervasive observed changes in work organisation away from the traditional functional departments and towards multi-tasking and job rotation. Whereas the exsisting literature on the division of labour...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010316081
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Global Robots
Leone, Fabrizio - 2024
The diffusion of automation technology raises questions about the future of work, leading to calls for policy … automation technology, where a few multinational enterprises (MNEs) dominate sales. To evaluate how these MNEs respond to policy …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015211262
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Training, Automation, and Wages: International Worker-Level Evidence
Falck, Oliver; Guo, Yuchen; Langer, Christina; … - 2024
countries, we construct an individual-level measure of automation risk based on tasks performed at work. Our analysis reveals …Job training is widely regarded as crucial for protecting workers from automation, yet there is a lack of empirical … substantial within-occupation variation in automation risk, overlooked by existing occupation-level measures. To assess whether …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015211355
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Automation, Global Value Chains and Functional Specialization
Fontagné, Lionel; Reshef, Ariell; Santoni, Gianluca; … - 2023
We study how technology adoption and changes in global value chain (GVC) integration jointly affect labor shares and business function specialization in a sample of 14 manufacturing industries in 14 European countries in 1999–2011. Our main contribution is to highlight the indirect effect of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014290191