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Innovation, Automation, and Inequality: Policy Challenges in the Race against the Machine

Prettner, Klaus; Strulik, Holger - 2019

We analyze the effects of R&D-driven automation on economic growth, education, and inequality when high-skilled workers … and that they may actually reduce education. Finally, we extend the model by fair wage concerns and show how automation …

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The Nordic model of economic development: shocks, reforms and future prospects

Iacono, Roberto - 2017

population ageing and increased automation for indicators of sustainability for the Nordic welfare states. …

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Does the Rise of Robotic Technology Make People Healthier?

Gunadi, Christian; Ryu, Hanbyul - 2020

Technological advancements bring changes to our life, altering our behaviors as well as our role in the economy. In this paper, we examine the potential effect of the rise of robotic technology on health. The results of the analysis suggest that higher penetration of industrial robots in the...

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Calling Older Workers Back to Work

Grigoli, Francesco; Koczan, Zsoka; Topalova, Petia - 2021

role of services also contributed, while automation weighed on their participation. …

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Labour and technology at the time of Covid-19. Can artificial intelligence mitigate the need for proximity?

Carbonero, Francesco; Scicchitano, Sergio - 2021

role of automation in supporting the work of humans but the potential of Artificial Intelligence (AI) to influence the need …

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Robots, Digitalization, and Worker Voice

Belloc, Filippo; Burdin, Gabriel; Landini, Fabio - 2022

The interplay between labor institutions and the firm-level adoption of new technologies such as robotics and other advanced digital tools remains poorly understood. Using a cross-sectional sample of more than 20000 European establishments, this paper documents a positive association between...

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The reassuring effect of firms' technological innovations on workers' job insecurity

Caselli, Mauro; Fracasso, Andrea; Marcolin, Arianna; … - 2021

We analyse how the adoption of technological innovations correlates with workers' perceived levels of job insecurity, and what factors mediate such relationship, by exploiting a recent, large and dedicated survey distributed to a representative sam- ple of Italian workers. The dedicated survey...

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Institutions, Holdup and Automation

Presidente, Giorgio - 2021

What drives investment in automation technologies? This paper documents a positive relationship between labor … substantial share of cross-country variation in automation. The relation- ship between institutions and robots is stronger in sunk … invest in automation is to thwart rent appropriation by labor. As a consequence, policies aimed at supporting workers …

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Robots, Meaning, and Self-Determination

Nikolova, Milena; Cnossen, Femke - 2022

We are the first to examine the impact of robotization on work meaningfulness and autonomy, competence, and relatedness, which are key for motivation and human flourishing at work. Using worker-level data from 13 industries in 20 European countries and OLS and instrumental variables estimations,...

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Navigating the Precarious Path: Understanding the Dualisation of the Italian Labour Market through the Lens of Involuntary Part-Time Employment

Cuccu, Liliana; Royuela, Vicente; Scicchitano, Sergio - 2024

This paper investigates the surge in Involuntary Part-Time (IPT) employment in Italy from 2004 to 2019, exploring its impact on various socio-economic groups and adopting a spatial perspective. Our study tests the hypothesis that technological shifts, specifically routine biased technological...

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