Robots and unions: The moderating effect of organized labour on technological unemployment

Haapanala, Henri; Marx, Ive; Parolin, Zachary

doi:10.1177/0143831x221094078

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“…unions, are correlated with unemployment or job insecurity in the era of digital economy [26][27] . Last but not least, information security awareness and customer alienation are found to have a great influence on consumers' privacy concerns, which can not be changed by offering high-standard privacy settings for users to adjust 28 .…”

Section: Positive Attitudementioning

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Artificial intelligence opportunities and challenges for enterprise management: a review and research hotspot

Liang

2022

International Symposium on Robotics, Artificial Intelligence, and Information Engineering (RAIIE 2022)

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Artificial intelligence(AI) is being integrated into enterprises' strategy for improving management performance, while many managers do not know the focus of AI research, nor do they know what specific aspects AI is applicable to and the possible impact. The main purpose of this research is to analyze the change that brought by technologies based on AI on enterprise, to determine the compound effect on enterprise management reform. This paper proposes a framework for fully understanding the opportunities and challenges on enterprise management reform brought by AI to help companies break down their prejudices about AI. Through bibliometrics method and literature review, we find that AI applications can promote the beneficial changes of the three relationships in enterprise management, including the relationship between enterprises and customers, superiors and subordinates, as well as the relationship between traditional production factors and data factors. Meanwhile, enterprises may face difficulties in security and privacy, law and ethics, and culture and talent. All in all, enterprise management will embrace the opportunities of innovation in theory and practice in the era of AI if we can effectively prevent or deal with the possible problems.

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Section: Positive Attitudementioning

confidence: 99%

Artificial intelligence opportunities and challenges for enterprise management: a review and research hotspot

Liang

2022

International Symposium on Robotics, Artificial Intelligence, and Information Engineering (RAIIE 2022)

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“…China has seen a drop in the growth of the working-age population and fast-growing labor expenses in recent years, which corresponds with the intense use of industrial robots [20]. Not only have automation and robotics technologies changed how contemporary manufacturing is carried out, they have also become deeply ingrained in practically every area of people's lives [21].…”

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confidence: 99%

Industrial Robots and the Employment Quality of Migrant Workers in the Manufacturing Industry

Tan

2023

Sustainability

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Machine and manufacturing migrant workers in the new era are side by side cooperation and interaction of the new labor force form. Based on the dynamic survey of China’s floating population in 2011 and the data collected by the International Federation of Robotics, the Bartik instrument variable method is used to analyze the impact of industrial robots on the employment quality of the floating population in manufacturing industry at the city level. As the city scale expands, industrial robots have an inverted U-shaped effect on the employment quality of manufacturing migrant workers. Industrial robots have a positive U-shaped influence on the number of hours that migrant workers in manufacturing work, with an inflexion point of 1.3721 units per 10,000 workers. The influence of industrial robots on migrant workers’ working conditions in the manufacturing sector was U-shaped, and 1.668 units per 10,000 workers marked the tipping point. Nevertheless, industrial robots have an inverse influence on the occupation stability of migrant workers in the manufacturing industry. Precisely, the installation density of industrial robots in the manufacturing industry has a detrimental impact on the occupational stability of migrant employees. Industrial robots are negatively associated with the working conditions of migrant workers employed in manufacturing. There were detrimental effects on the employment quality of manufacturing migrant workers in cities with higher and lower population densities. In the end, for every manufacturing farmer using an industrial robot, the likelihood of being miserable and almost happy went up by 2.64 percent and 5.59 percent, respectively, while the likelihood of being happy went down by 7.62 percent.

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“…Consequently, unemployment elasticity tends to be higher in contexts with weaker trade unions, confirming their function as buffers (or even shelters) against the possible imbalances in supply and demand. Nevertheless, trade unions are expected to affect group-specific employment opportunities among different industries and local areas or among educational, occupational or cohort-based groups (Bechter and Brandl, 2015;Haapanala et al, 2023;Parolin, 2021). Similarly, technologically induced changes in labour demand for specific occupations have been found to respond to the strength, density, and internal composition of trade unions.…”

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Returns to digital skills use, temporary employment, and trade unions in European labour markets

Cutuli,

Tomelleri

2023

European Journal of Industrial Relations

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This paper investigates the moderating role of institutional factors on returns to ICT skill usage among different groups of workers in eight European labour markets. Using PIAAC data, the paper leverages the segmentation of contractual status, allowing for heterogeneous wage effects among workers holding permanent and temporary contracts. Furthermore, this study considers how gaps in ICT wage premiums mirror the compositional differences in national-specific trade union densities among contractual groups, demonstrating that wage premiums associated with ICT usage are not univocally defined by task content or demand-supply dynamics for specific sectors and occupations. The results highlight different returns between labour market segments according to national-specific trade union densities of temporary and permanent workers, revealing how the consequences of technological change are shaped by institutional cleavages.

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Robots and unions: The moderating effect of organized labour on technological unemployment

Cited by 7 publications

References 62 publications

Artificial intelligence opportunities and challenges for enterprise management: a review and research hotspot

Artificial intelligence opportunities and challenges for enterprise management: a review and research hotspot

Industrial Robots and the Employment Quality of Migrant Workers in the Manufacturing Industry

Returns to digital skills use, temporary employment, and trade unions in European labour markets

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