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Autonomy and control in mass remote working during the Covid-19 pandemic: Evidence from a cross-professional and cross-national analysis
Fana, Marta; Massimo, Francesco Sabato; Moro, Angelo - 2021
The global pandemic induced by the spread of the Covid-19 acted as an exogenous shock which forced organisations to adopt telework as a daily and common form of work along a relevant fraction of the occupational structure. Indeed, most of the growing contributions on telework focused on the...
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Monopoly capitalism in the digital era
Coveri, Andrea; Cozza, Claudio; Guarascio, Dario - 2021
The paper applies the radical view of Monopoly Capitalism to the digital platform economy. Based on the seminal ideas of Hymer and Zeitlin that led Cowling and Sugden to define the large monopolistic firm as a means to plan production from a unique centre of strategic decision-making, we attempt...
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The impact of robots on workplace injuries and deaths: Empirical evidence from Europe
De Simone, Marco; Guarascio, Dario; Reljic, Jelena - 2025
This paper examines the impact of robotisation on workplace safety in EU manufacturing sectors between 2011 and 2019. To address endogeneity concerns, we employ an instrumental variable approach and find that robot adoption reduces both injuries and fatalities. Specifically, a 10% increase in...
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The empirics of technology, employment and occupations: Lessons learned and challenges ahead
Montobbio, Fabio; Staccioli, Jacopo; Virgillito, Maria … - 2022
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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Routinization, within-occupation task changes and long-run employment dynamics
Consoli, Davide; Marin, Giovanni; Rentocchini, Francesco; … - 2019
The present study contributes to the existing literature on routinization and employment by capturing within-occupation task changes over the period 1980-2010. The main contributions are the measurement of such changes and the combination of two data sources on occupational task content for the...
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The dynamics of automation adoption: Firm-level heterogeneity and aggregate employment effects
Bisio, Laura; Cuzzola, Angelo; Grazzi, Marco; … - 2023
We investigate the impact of investment in automation-related goods on adopting and non-adopting firms in the Italian … exploiting import lumpiness in product categories linked to automation and AI technologies. We find a positive average adoption … medium and large firms. We complete the framework with a 5-digit sector-level analysis showing that adopting automation …
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Threats and opportunities in the digital era: Automation spikes and employment dynamics
Domini, Giacomo; Grazzi, Marco; Moschella, Daniele; … - 2019
This paper investigates how investment in automation-intensive goods impacts on worker flows at the firm level and …, their imports, and employer-employee data for French manufacturing employers over 2002-2015, we identify "automation spikes …" using imports of intermediates embedding automation technologies and then test their impact on employment dynamics. We find …
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For whom the bell tolls: The firm-level effects of automation on wage and gender inequality
Domini, Giacomo; Grazzi, Marco; Moschella, Daniele; … - 2021
This paper investigates the impact of investment in automation- and AI- related goods on within-firm wage inequality in … event-study approach on a sample of firms importing automation and AI-related goods, we find that spike events related to … the adoption of automation- or AI-related capital goods are not followed by an increase in within-firm wage nor in gender …
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Automation and labor market polarization in an evolutionary model with heterogeneous workers
Bordot, Florent; Lorentz, André - 2021
realize the tasks necessary for the production process. The two scenarios considered, with and without automation, confirm …The purpose of this paper is to investigate the mechanisms underlying the relationship between automation and labor … that automation is indeed a key factor in polarizing the structure of skill demand and increasing wage inequality. This …
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Automation, firm size and skill groups
Tiedtke, Julian - 2025
This paper examines the impact of automation investments on employment dynamics and workforce composition using … administrative data from Portugal. I exploit the lumpiness of automation imports in a difference-in-differences event study design …. My results show that automation creates jobs in small firms but leads to job losses in larger ones. This pattern holds …
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