Automation and labor force participation in advanced economies: Macro and micro evidence

Grigoli, Francesco; Kóczán, Zsóka; Topalova, Petia

doi:10.1016/j.euroecorev.2020.103443

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“…Recent advances in automation and their implications for the economy and society are central issues in the global policy and academic debate. However, despite the comprehensive examination of the impact of automation on overall employment and labor force participation (see Grigoli et al 2020 for a review), there has been little empirical research on how automation might a↵ect gender equality.…”

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“…They also show that the probability of automation is lower for younger cohorts of women, and those in managerial positions. Grigoli et al (2020) examine the e↵ects of automation (that is, routine-replacing technical change) on labor force participation rates and individuals' attachment to the workforce in 23 advanced economies over the period 1985-2016. They find that exposure to automation explains about half of the observed decline in labor force participation rates of prime-age men in the average advanced economy.…”

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Robots and the gender pay gap in Europe

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Özcan

Philipp

2021

European Economic Review

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Could robotization make the gender pay gap worse? We provide the first largescale evidence on the impact of industrial robots on the gender pay gap using data from 20 European countries. We show that robot adoption increases both male and female earnings but also increases the gender pay gap. Using an instrumental variable strategy, we find that a ten percent increase in robotization leads to a 1.8 percent increase in the gender pay gap. These results are mainly driven by countries with high levels of gender inequality and outsourcing destination countries. We then explore the mechanisms behind this e↵ect and find that our results can be explained by the fact that men at medium-and high-skill occupations disproportionately benefit from robotization (through a productivity e↵ect). We rule out the possibility that our results are driven by mechanical changes in the gender composition of the workforce nor by inflows or outflows from the manufacturing sector.

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Robots and the gender pay gap in Europe

Aksoy

Özcan

Philipp

2021

European Economic Review

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“…• Somewhat surprisingly, higher public spending on ALMP tends to be associated with lower participation of older workers. This is suggestive of a possible substitution effect if ALMP promote participation of young and prime-age workers, which may be preferred by employers (Grigoli et al, 2020).…”

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Calling older workers back to work

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Topalova³

2021

Applied Economics Letters

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“…In participatory work environments they can also actively shape the way in which new technologies are integrated into their work processes [9,71,72]. The effects of digital technologies on industrial employment also strongly depend on other national factors such as the respective social protection mechanisms as well as the structure and the educational level of the workforce [10,66,67,73]. These important aspects have hardly been reflected in our studied body of literature.…”

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Industry 4.0: a step towards achieving the SDGs? A critical literature review

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The transformation of industrial production is one of the big challenges on the pathway to sustainable development. Therefore, expectations regarding the contribution of Industry 4.0 are high. So far there is only little research focusing on the relation between the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the United Nations 2030 Agenda and the digitalization of industrial processes. We argue that sustainability aspects must be an integral part of Industry 4.0 implementation to support a sustainable development. For that reason, the digital manufacturing concept itself must take essential characteristics of sustainability into account. Our analysis has investigated to what extent sustainability aspects are currently reflected in the most recognized articles about Industry 4.0. For that purpose, we have conducted a systematic literature review, in which we have analysed the top cohort of most frequently cited articles published after 2013 on GoogleScholar dealing with “Industry 4.0”. Our literature review reveals that the descriptions reflect many expectations and hopes while only few of them are evidence-based. According to our results Industry 4.0 mainly deals with the economic dimension of sustainability such as growth and productivity. Although there are expectations that Industry 4.0 creates a window of opportunity for a more sustainable production, we could not find evidence to support this idea. Instead of targeting a more sustainable production, many descriptions draw a picture in which Industry 4.0 processes run exactly as before, just in a digital way.

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Automation and labor force participation in advanced economies: Macro and micro evidence

Cited by 68 publications

References 39 publications

Robots and the gender pay gap in Europe

Robots and the gender pay gap in Europe

Calling older workers back to work

Industry 4.0: a step towards achieving the SDGs? A critical literature review

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