Who is Afraid of Machines?
Sotiris Blanas, Gino Gancia and Sang Yoon (Tim) Lee study how the widespread use of different machines affected different groups of workers in the recent past.
Topic Archive: Labor Economics
Economic Shocks, Labor Migration and the Family Left Behind
André Gröger uses a dataset of Vietnamese households with international migrants to show that domestic and foreign migration decisions are interrelated and jointly determine outcomes at origin.
Digitalization: Not so disruptive after all
Aina Gallego, Thomas Kurer and Nikolas Schöll empirically analyze the political consequences of digitalization.
Firing the wrong workers
Andrea Caggese, Vicente Cuñat and Daniel Metzger study how financing constraints affect the firing decisions of firms.
