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Does Robotization Affect Job Quality? Evidence from European Regional Labour Markets

Antón Pérez, José Ignacio; Fernández-Macías, Enrique; … - 2021

Whereas there are recent papers on the effect of robot adoption on employment and wages, there is no evidence on how robots affect non-monetary working conditions. We explore the impact of robot adoption on several domains of non-monetary working conditions in Europe over the period 1995–2005...

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Adverse Workplace Conditions, High-Involvement Work Practices and Labor Turnover : Evidence from Danish Linked Employer-Employee Data

Cottini, Elena - 2009

This paper contributes to the emerging strand of the empirical literature that takes advantage of new data on workplace-specific job attributes and voluntary employee turnover to shed fresh insights on the relationship between employee turnover, adverse workplace conditions and HRM environments....

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What If Your Boss is a Woman? Work Organization, Work-Life Balance and Gender Discrimination at the Workplace

Lucifora, Claudio - 2016

In this paper, we investigate the association between female leadership, work organization practices and perceived gender discrimination within firms. Using data for 30 European countries for the period 1995-2010, we find that having a female "boss" is associated with lower overall gender...

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Automation and Related Technologies : A Mapping of the New Knowledge Base

Santarelli, Enrico; Staccioli, Jacopo; Vivarelli, Marco - 2022

Using the entire population of USPTO patent applications published between 2002 and 2019, and leveraging on both patent classification and semantic analysis, this paper aims to map the current knowledge base centred on robotics and AI technologies. These technologies are investigated both as a...

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Are Robots Stealing Our Jobs?

Pellegrino, Gabriele - 2017

In this work, we test the employment impact of distinct types of innovative investments using a representative sample of Spanish manufacturing firms over the period 2002-2013. Our GMM-SYS estimates generate various results, which are partially in contrast with the extant literature. Indeed,...

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Organizational Redesign, Information Technologies and Workplace Productivity

Dostie, Benoît; Jayaraman, Rajshri - 2021

Using a large longitudinal, nationally representative workplace-level dataset, we explore the productivity gains associated with computer use and organizational redesign. The empirical strategy involves the estimation of a production function, augmented to account for technology use and...

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Labor Supply and Automation Innovation

Danzer, Alexander M. - 2020

supply on automation innovation by exploiting an immigrant placement policy in Germany during the 1990s and 2000s. Difference …-in-differences estimates indicate that one additional worker per 1,000 manual and unskilled workers reduces automation innovation by 0 …

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Automation, Globalization and Vanishing Jobs : A Labor Market Sorting View

Faia, Ester - 2020

We show, theoretically and empirically, that the effects of technological change associated with automation and … efficient assortative matching between firms with heterogeneous tasks and workers with heterogeneous skills. Our key hypothesis … is that better matches enjoy a comparative advantage in exploiting automation and a comparative disadvantage in …

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Testing the Employment Impact of Automation, Robots and AI : A Survey and Some Methodological Issues

Barbieri, Laura - 2019

The present technological revolution, characterized by the pervasive and growing presence of robots, automation … overall consequences on the number of employees, tasks required, and wage/inequality effect …

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We Were the Robots : Automation and Voting Behavior in Western Europe

Anelli, Massimo - 2019

ideology scores from the Manifesto Project. We measure exposure to automation both at the regional level, based on the ex …

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