Der Einsatz von synthetischen Daten wird als Alternative gehandelt, um das Spannungsfeld zwischen Erhalt des Analysepotenzials bei gleichzeitiger Gewährleistung des Schutzes der Daten optimal aufzulösen. Der Beitrag geht dieser Frage nach mit der Verdienststrukturerhebung 2018 als Datenbasis....

Technological innovations like lightweight robots are transforming workplaces, intensifying focus on human-machine task division and work design. Job control is a key task characteristic known to have positive effects on employees, but its specific impact across different facets remains unclear...

Aus dem einleitenden Teil: "Eine sich wandelnde Arbeitswelt ist an sich nichts Neues. Besonders an der aktuellen Situation sind jedoch die hohe Geschwindigkeit der Veränderungen und die gleichzeitige Einwirkung zweier disruptiver Ereignisse, nämlich der Covid-19-Pandemie und der kriegerischen...

Mit der digitalen Transformation kommt es zu einem Schub in der Automatisierung von Arbeit. Die Einführung von Künstlicher Intelligenz führt zur grundlegenden Restrukturierung der Arbeitsinhalte und -prozesse im Büro. Damit gehen nicht nur Risiken von Funktionsverlusten bis hin zum Verlust...

We study how the labor market shocks of automation and immigration interact to shape workers' outcomes. Using matched employer-employee data from Norwegian administrative registers, we combine an immigration shock triggered by the European Union's 2004 enlargement with an automation shock based...

We provide experimental evidence on how employers adjust expectations to automation risk in high-skill, white-collar work. Using a randomized information intervention among tax advisors in Germany, we show that firms systematically underestimate automatability. Information provision raises risk...

Recent technological developments have given rise to debates about automation and the future of work. These debates touch on concerns about the availability, nature, and meaningfulness of jobs in the present and near future. The aim of this article is to show that Hannah Arendt’s phenomenology...

We provide experimental evidence on how employers adjust expectations to automation risk in high-skill, white-collar work. Using a randomized information intervention among tax advisors in Germany, we show that firms systematically underestimate automatability. Information provision raises risk...

Aus dem einleitenden Teil: "Eine sich wandelnde Arbeitswelt ist an sich nichts Neues. Besonders an der aktuellen Situation sind jedoch die hohe Geschwindigkeit der Veränderungen und die gleichzeitige Einwirkung zweier disruptiver Ereignisse, nämlich der Covid-19-Pandemie und der kriegerischen...

This paper investigates how Artificial Intelligence (AI) goes beyond traditional technological roles to drive transformation across industries, organisations, and society. By analysing 2188 academic papers from the arXiv platform (from 2018 until 2025), the study highlights the unexpectedly...

We study how the labor market shocks of automation and immigration interact to shape workers’ outcomes. Using matched employer–employee data from Norwegian administrative registers, we combine an immigration shock triggered by the European Union’s 2004 enlargement with an automation shock...

We provide experimental evidence on how employers adjust expectations to automation risk in high-skill, white-collar work. Using a randomized information intervention among tax advisors in Germany, we show that firms systematically underestimate automatability. Information provision raises risk...

Daron Acemoglu and Pascal Restrepo uncover how automation disproportionately targets tasks that pay workers above-market wages, eroding those rents and amplifying wage losses for affected workers. Using U.S. data from 1980 to 2016, they show that this “rent dissipation” not only reduces wage...

Grounded in the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM), this research explores how marketing professionals perceive AI adoption, examining the paradoxical tensions between technological fascination and professional resistance that challenge traditional TAM assumptions. This study draws on an...

We examine the effects of adopting automation technologies on the export performance of French manufacturing firms during the 2002–2019 period. Adoption is identified through imports of automation-related capital goods, and its effects are estimated by means of a staggered...

This paper reviews RPA adoption in Chile and estimates its future social impact. A survey of 103 professionals - mainly from services, mining, and engineering - shows most firms have not begun implementing RPA. Early adopters prioritize strategic alignment, tech readiness, and scalability,...

We examine the effects of automation on firm performance and the labour market in the context of an emerging economy. To do this, we leverage unique administrative data on the universe of manufacturing firms in South Africa to identify causal evidence of firm-level outcomes from automation...

The objective of this TechDispatch is twofold. First, it examines common assumptions about how humans interact with and monitor decision-making systems, highlighting the overly optimistic nature of many of these assumptions. Accepting these assumptions uncritically can lead to inadequate or...

Labour shortages in Europe have led firms to adopt two key strategies: automation and the employment of migrants. This study empirically examines the relationship between robot adoption and immigrant labour (differentiated by region of origin and education level) in Austrian firms using a novel...

This study examines the relationship between firm-level automation in manufacturing and local labor market employment outcomes using 2001-2022 Swedish linked employer-employee data. I utilize a shift-share instrumental variable approach and obtain robust results that automation affects...