This study conducts a meta-analysis to assess the effects of robotization on employment and wages, compiling data from … 33 studies with 644 estimates on employment and a subset of 19 studies with 195 estimates on wages. We identify a … minimal. Thus, concerns about the disruptive effects of robots on employment and the risk of widespread technological …

This paper takes advantage of access to detailed matched bank-firm data to investigate whether and how employment … constraints have been essentially detrimental for employment among SMEs experiencing a negative demand shock or facing strong … product market competition. In terms of human resources management, credit constraints are not only found to foster employment …

This work investigates the impact that the change in the exposure to robots had on the Italian local employment … robots' activities, rather than on their industries of employment, the analysis reveals for the first time reinstatement …

80% of their pre-crisis level. Also, data suggest that the increase in employment in May 2020 is due to some of those … waiting to be recalled re-entering employment. These patterns suggest that a reasonably quick rebound of the labour market may …

This paper studies the impact of the COVID-19 crisis on the gendered dimensions of employment and mental health among … urban informal-sector workers in India. First, we find that men's employment declined by 84 percentage points post … did not experience any significant impact on employment post pandemic, as reported by their husbands. Second, we document …

builds on the existing literature on the effect of marriage on women’s employment in MENA. Besides examining how different … in the extent to which self-employment after marriage is available to women to compensate for the reduction in wage … employment opportunities. …

part of the gender earnings gap and mitigate high female propensity to self-employment. Our findings suggest that policies …Persistent gender gaps characterize labor markets in many African countries. Utilizing Eswatini's first three labor … market surveys (conducted in 2007, 2010, and 2013), this paper provides first systematic evidence on the country's gender …

Gender-based board quotas do not always lead to higher share of women in top management positions. We study the … consequences of an affirmative action policy that stipulates gender- and race-based targets in top management positions, beyond … boards. We focus on the representation of intersectional group identities, such as race and gender, at the top. We find …

, we estimate the causal effects of a firm’s bilateral trade on employment and wages of immigrants from that country. We … find a positive, yet heterogeneous, effect of trade on immigrant employment but no effect on immigrant wages. …