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.
Video: Dynamic Modeling of Labor Market Mobility and Human Capital Accumulation (ERC Starting Grant)
Joan Llull discusses his ERC Starting Grant project in this short video.
Should fathers be more involved in childrearing?
Lídia Farré and Libertad González analyze the effect of the introduction of a paternity leave allowance in Spain on households’ labor market and fertility decisions.
