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Working at home in Greece: unexplored potential at times of social distancing?

Pouliakas, Konstantinos - 2020

This paper investigates the incidence, trend and determinants of remote work in Greece. A crisis-stricken country in the years preceding the Covid-19 crisis, Greece entered the first wave of the public health shock as a laggard in digitalisation and remote work arrangements among European...

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The impact of artificial intelligence on labor markets in developing countries: a new method with an illustration for Lao PDR and Viet Nam

Carbonero, Francesco; Davies, Jeremy; Ernst, Ekkehard; … - 2021

AI is transforming labor markets around the world. Existing research has focused on advanced economies but has neglected developing economies. Different impacts of AI on labor markets in different countries arise not only from heterogeneous occupational structures, but also from the fact that...

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Recessions and the labor market returns to cognitive and social skills

Frisvold, David E.; Kim, Sun Hyung - 2024

Although recessions negatively affect labor market outcomes, we find that individuals with greater cognitive skills have been less affected by recessions since 2000 compared to those in the 1980s and 1990s. This result occurs despite a decrease in the returns to cognitive skills over the last...

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The race for an artificial general intelligence : implications for public policy

Naudé, Wim; Dimitri, Nicola - 2018

An arms race for an artificial general intelligence (AGI) would be detrimental for and even pose an existential threat to humanity if it results in an unfriendly AGI. In this paper an all-pay contest model is developed to derive implications for public policy to avoid such an outcome. It is...

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AI, task changes in jobs, and worker reallocation

Gathmann, Christina; Grimm, Felix; Winkler, Erwin - 2024

How does Artificial Intelligence (AI) affect the task content of work, and how do workers adjust to the diffusion of AI in the economy? To answer these important questions, we combine novel patent-based measures of AI and robot exposure with individual survey data on tasks performed on the job...

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How do workers adjust when firms adopt new technologies?

Genz, Sabrina; Gregory, Terry; Janser, Markus; Lehmer, … - 2021

' technology adoption to administrative social security data. We then compare individual outcomes between workers employed at … technology adopters relative to non-adopters. Depending on the type of technology, we find evidence for improved employment … stability, higher wage growth, and increased cumulative earnings in response to digital technology adoption. These beneficial …

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Artificial intelligence and labor market transformations in Latin America

Egana-delSol, Pablo; Bravo Ortega, Claudio - 2025

This study examines the implications of artificial intelligence (AI) on employment, wages, and inequality in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC). The paper identifies tasks and occupations most exposed to AI using comprehensive individual-level data alongside AI exposure indices. Unlike...

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The wrong kind of AI? : artificial intelligence and the future of labor demand

Acemoglu, Daron; Restrepo, Pascual - 2019

, as a technology platform, can automate tasks previously performed by labor or create new tasks and activities in which …

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Using domain-specific word embeddings to examine the demand for skills

Chaturvedi, Sugat; Mahajan, Kanika; Siddique, Zahra - 2023

We study the demand for skills by using text analysis methods on job descriptions in a large volume of ads posted on an online Indian job portal. We make use of domain-specific unlabeled data to obtain word vector representations (i.e., word embeddings) and discuss how these can be leveraged for...

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De-routinization in the fourth industrial revolution : firm-level evidence

Arntz, Melanie; Genz, Sabrina; Gregory, Terry; Lehmer, … - 2024

This paper examines the extent to which aggregate-level de-routinization can be attributed to firm-level technology … technologies. Our results suggest that an acceleration of technology adoption would be associated with faster de-routinization and …

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