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period marked by the rapid adoption of industrial robots. Automation reduced relative hourly wages and employment of more … input to the EUROMOD microsimulation model, we find that automation had minor effects on income inequality. Household labour … income diversification and tax and welfare policies largely absorbed labour market shocks caused by automation. Transfers …
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This paper examines the extent to which aggregate-level de-routinization can be attributed to firm-level technology adoption during the most recent technological expansion. We use administrative data and a novel firm survey to distinguish frontier technologies from older technologies. We find...
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contribution of automation to the task content and skills complexity of the jobs of incumbent workers. Despite the recent focus on … the polarising impact of automation and associated reskilling needs of lower-skilled individuals, our evidence also draws …
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technological change that automates or augments workers' job tasks and their participation in work-related training. We find that 58 …-21 period. Of those exposed to new digital technology, 14 per cent did not experience any change in job tasks, 10 per cent … reported that new tasks had been created while 5 per cent only saw some of their tasks being displaced by new technology. The …
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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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physical tasks, which we combine with industry-level robotization exposure. Our conceptual framework builds on the insight that … robotization simultaneously replaces, creates, and modifies workers' tasks and studies how these forces impact workers' job content … reduction in manual work does not coincide with a shift to more challenging and interesting tasks. Instead, robotization makes …
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between robotization, competence, and relatedness is also negative but less robust. We also examine how tasks, skills, and … socio-demographic characteristics moderate the relationship. We find that workers with routine tasks drive the negative … effects of robotization on autonomy. However, we also discover that engaging in social tasks and utilizing computers as tools …
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pronounced for workers in occupations intensive in routine manual or routine cognitive tasks, but are insignificant in … occupations intensive in non-routine cognitive tasks. For young and old workers in countries with low levels of labour costs …
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We analyze if technological progress and the corresponding change in the occupational structure have improved the relative position of women in the labour market. We show that the share of women rises most strongly in non-routine cognitive and manual occupations, but declines in routine...
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What have we learned, from the most recent years of debate and analysis, of the future of work being threatened by technology? This paper presents a critical review of the empirical literature and outlines both lessons learned and challenges ahead. Far from being fully exhaustive, the review...
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