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Technological unemployment revisited : automation in a search and matching framework

Cords, Dario; Prettner, Klaus - 2019

Will low-skilled workers be replaced by automation? To answer this question, we set up a search and matching model that … features two skill types of workers and includes automation capital as an additional production factor. Automation capital is a … show that the accumulation of automation capital decreases the labor market tightness in the low-skilled labor market and …

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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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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 relationship 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; Nikolaev, Boris - 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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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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Automation and demographic change

Abeliansky, Ana Lucia; Prettner, Klaus - 2020

We analyze the effects of declining population growth on automation. Theoretical considerations imply that countries … with lower population growth introduce automation technologies faster. We test the theoretical implication on panel data …

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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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Robots, reshoring, and the lot of low-skilled workers

Krenz, Astrid; Prettner, Klaus; Strulik, Holger - 2020

We propose a theoretical framework to analyze the offshoring and reshoring decisions of firms in the age of automation …. Our theory suggests that increasing productivity in automation leads to a relocation of previously offshored production … it leads also to increasing wages for high-skilled workers, automation-induced reshoring is associated with an increasing …

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The future of work in developing economies : what can we learn from the South?

Egana del Sol, Pablo - 2020

In recent years, there has been an escalation of concern revolving around the effect that automation will have on the … at a large scale. Numerous studies have begun to investigate automation's impact on labor markets, although all have … Skills Measurement Program Database, we examine automation's effect on 10 developing countries throughout Latin America …

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