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Does robotization affect job quality? Evidence from European regional labour markets

Antón Pérez, José Ignacio; Fernández-Macías, Enrique; … - 2020

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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Does robotization affect job quality? Evidence from European regional labour markets

Antón Pérez, José Ignacio; Fernández-Macías, Enrique; … - 2020

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

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012662702

The Role of Services for Manufacturing Firms' Exports

Lodefalk, Magnus - 2012

Manufacturing firms increasingly focus on services. This trend is evident in their composition of input, in-house production and seemingly also in total sale. Firms' services intensity may affect their productivity, and thereby competitiveness abroad. Services are also instrumental in connecting...

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Routinization, Within-Occupation Task Changes and Long-Run Employment Dynamics

Consoli, Davide; Marin, Giovanni; Rentocchini, Francesco; … - 2022

Information Network. We show that within-occupation reorientation away from routine tasks: i) accounts for 1/3 of the decline in …

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Occupational switching during the Second Industrial Revolution

Hobijn, Bart; Kaplan, Robert S. - 2024

During the Second Industrial Revolution, in the late nineteenth century, the proliferation of automation technologies … growing occupations affected by automation technologies. …

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The Covid-19 pandemic spurred growth in automation: What does this mean for minority workers?

Broady, Kristen; Booth Bell, Darlene; Barr, Anthony; … - 2023

The Covid-19 pandemic has accelerated trends in automation as many employers seek to save on labor costs amid … explored how automation may displace nonspecialized jobs, there is typically less attention paid to how this displacement may … estimated risk of automation and underrepresented in the 30 occupations with the lowest estimated risk of automation. The …

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Artificial intelligence and worker stress: Evidence from Germany

Koch, Michael; Lodefalk, Magnus - 2024

We use individual survey data providing detailed information on stress, technology adoption, and work, worker, and employer characteristics, in combination with recent measures of AI and robot exposure, to investigate how new technologies affect worker stress. We find a persistent negative...

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Is job polarization a recent phenomenon? Evidence from Sweden, 1950-2013, and a comparison to the United States

Gustavsson, Magnus - 2017

In this paper, I first show that Swedish job polarization is - contrary to common belief - a long-run phenomenon: the share of middle-wage jobs has declined relative to the highest- and lowest-paid jobs since at least the 1950s. Based on previous results for the US, I then demonstrate that the...

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Who is afraid of machines?

Blanas, Sotiris; Gancia, Gino Alessandro; Lee, Sang Yoon - 2019

We study how various types of machines, namely, information and communication technologies, software, and especially industrial robots, affect the demand for workers of different education, age, and gender. We do so by exploiting differences in the composition of workers across countries,...

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AI-enabled automation, trade, and the future of engineering services

Klügl, Franziska; Nordås, Hildegunn Kyvik - 2021

This paper studies the role of trade for the joint uptake of AI-enabled automation in manufacturing and engineering. It …

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