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Wages, creative destruction, and union networks
Dale-Olsen, Harald - 2018
from 1918 to study the impact of changes in regional unionisation on regional wage and productivity growth and job creation … unionisation yields a positive impact on regional productivity, exceeding the wage growth, partly due to the closure of less … productive firms, but also enhanced productivity of the survivors and new entrants. …
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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 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015325267
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The impact of digital technologies on worker tasks : do labor policies matter?
Almeida, Rita; Corseuil, Carlos H. L.; Poole, Jennifer P. - 2017
Between 1999 and 2006, Brazilian cities experienced strong growth in the provision of internet services, driven in part by the privatization of the telecommunications industry. A main concern of policymakers is that digital technology replaces routine, manual tasks, displacing lower-skilled...
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The impact of digital technologies on worker tasks : do labor policies matter?
Almeida, Rita; Corseuil, Carlos H. L.; Poole, Jennifer P. - 2017
Between 1999 and 2006, Brazilian cities experienced strong growth in the provision of internet services, driven in part by the privatization of the telecommunications industry. A main concern of policymakers is that digital technology replaces routine, manual tasks, displacing lower-skilled...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011762224
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The impact of digital technologies on worker tasks : do labor policies matter?
Corseuil, Carlos H. L.; Poole, Jennifer P.; Almeida, Rita - 2018
Between 1999 and 2006, Brazilian cities experienced strong growth in the provision of internet services, driven in part by the privatization of the telecommunications industry. A main concern of policymakers is that digital technology replaces routine, manual tasks, displacing lower-skilled...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012061549
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The big trade-off in the world of labor
Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2015
The world is changing rapidly. This paper describes key shifts and it discusses their likely impacts on employment-related aspects. Labor market pressures are felt around the globe, and robots and automation increasingly become reality. However, there will be no "end of work". Rather, it is that...
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Artificial intelligence and the skill premium
Bloom, David E.; Prettner, Klaus; Saadaoui, Jamel; … - 2024
How will the emergence of ChatGPT and other forms of artificial intelligence (AI) affect the skill premium? To address this question, we propose a nested constant elasticity of substitution production function that distinguishes among three types of capital: traditional physical capital...
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Integration, Labor Market Regulation, Lobbying, and Technological Change
Palokangas, Tapio K. - 2009
This paper examines an economic union where oligopolistic firms produce by skilled and unskilled labor and do in-house Ramp;D by skilled labor. The planner of the union accepts new members to the union, regulates the labor market through a minimum wage for unskilled labor and supports firms by...
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How robots change within-firm wage inequality
Barth, Erling; Røed, Marianne; Schøne, Pål; Umblijs, … - 2020
Using novel matched employer-employee register data with firm-level information on the introduction of industrial robots, this paper analysis the impact of robots on the wages of workers in the manufacturing sector. The results show that industrial robots increase wages for high-skilled workers...
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