Robots and labor regulation: a cross-country/cross-industry analysis

Traverso, Silvio; Vatiero, Massimiliano; Zaninotto, Enrico

doi:10.1080/10438599.2022.2063122

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“…For example, restrictions such as severance payments by employers in case of unjust dismissal limit employers' ability to hold-up employees (Acharya et al ., 2013). Employers meet an opposite effect as the bargaining power of employees increases (Traverso et al ., 2023). This might require developing costly incentive and control instruments by employers.…”

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The institutional environment and gig platform transaction cost solutions

Golovanova,

Pontual Ribeiro,

Styrin

et al. 2024

Journal of Institutional Economics

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A growing number of labour market participants transact through gig platforms. This choice should reflect a reduction in transaction costs for platform users, compared to costs they meet when using alternative modes of governance. We exploit a unique cross-platform, cross-country data set of gig platform users to test the impact of the institutional environment in one of its dimensions – the strictness of labour market regulation (LMR) – on the ability of gig platforms to reduce users' transaction costs. According to our findings, the regulation indicator of both the user and platform countries influences transaction costs for platform users, even controlling for platform and user characteristics. The platform appears to reduce transaction costs most when users face stricter or weaker LMR, in a U-shaped effect. In the former case, the platform may provide an escape from labour regulations when hiring for tasks, while in the latter case, the platform can economize on the usual transaction costs of private contracting by administrating some types of users' activities.

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The institutional environment and gig platform transaction cost solutions

Golovanova,

Pontual Ribeiro,

Styrin

et al. 2024

Journal of Institutional Economics

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“…Last but not least, the effects of robotisation on employment and earnings may differ across countries and depend on their institutional settings. The labour substituting effect of robots tends to be stronger in countries with higher labour costs (Bachmann et al, 2022 ; Jung & Lim, 2020 ) and is argued to increase with a decline in employment protection legislation (Traverso et al, 2022 ).…”

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Industrial Robots and Regional Fertility in European Countries

2023

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In this study, we examine whether the long-term structural changes in the labour market, driven by automation, affect fertility. The adoption of industrial robots is used as a proxy for these changes. It has tripled since the mid-1990s in the EU, tremendously changing the conditions of participating in the labour market. On the one hand, new jobs are created, benefitting largely the highly skilled workers. On the other hand, the growing turnover in the labour market and changing content of jobs induce fears of job displacement and make workers continuously adjust to new requirements (reskill, upskill, increase work efforts). The consequences of these changes are particularly strong for the employment and earning prospects of low and middle-educated workers. Our focus is on six European countries: Czechia, France, Germany, Italy, Poland and the UK. We link regional data on fertility and employment structures by industry from Eurostat (NUTS-2) with data on robot adoption from the International Federation of Robotics. We estimate fixed effects linear models with instrumental variables in order to account for the external shocks which may affect fertility and robot adoption in parallel. Our findings suggest robots tend to exert a negative impact on fertility in highly industrialised regions, regions with relatively low educated populations and those which are technologically less advanced. At the same time, better educated and prospering regions may even experience fertility improvements as a result of technological change. The family and labour market institutions of the country may further moderate these effects.

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“…In addition to the concerns about technological displacement, workers may fear a more general loss of bargaining power:Traverso et al (2022), for example, claim that firms resort to industrial robots to reduce employees' bargaining power and hold-up opportunities.…”

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Technological Innovations and Workers’ Job Insecurity: The Moderating Role of Firm Strategies

Caselli,

Fracasso,

Marcolin

et al. 2023

SSRN Journal

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Robots and labor regulation: a cross-country/cross-industry analysis

Cited by 5 publications

References 63 publications

The institutional environment and gig platform transaction cost solutions

The institutional environment and gig platform transaction cost solutions

Industrial Robots and Regional Fertility in European Countries

Technological Innovations and Workers’ Job Insecurity: The Moderating Role of Firm Strategies

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