Automation, robots and wage inequality in Germany: A decomposition analysis

IF 0.7 Q4 INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS & LABOR
Labour-England Pub Date : 2022-11-14 DOI:10.1111/labr.12236
Franziska Brall, Ramona Schmid
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We conduct a decomposition analysis based on recentred influence function (RIF) regressions to disentangle the relative importance of automation and robotization for wage inequality in the manufacturing sector in Germany between 1996 and 2017. Our measure of automation threat combines occupation-specific scores of automation risk with sector-specific robot densities. We find that besides changes in the composition of individual characteristics, structural shifts among different automation threat groups are a non-negligible factor associated with wage inequality between 1996 and 2017. Moreover, the increase in wage dispersion among the different automation threat groups has contributed significantly to higher wage inequality in the 1990s and 2000s.

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德国的自动化、机器人和工资不平等:一个分解分析
我们分析了1996年至2017年德国制造业自动化和机器人化的提高是如何以及通过哪些渠道影响工资不平等的。结合各种不同个人、企业和行业特征的丰富关联的雇主-雇员数据,以及工业机器人和职业自动化概率的数据,我们能够理清德国工资不平等变化背后的不同潜在原因。我们将基于Oaxaca-Blinder (OB)分解的重中心影响函数(RIF)回归应用于几个不平等指数,并发现证据表明,除了年龄和教育等个人特征外,自动化和机器人化的提高对德国的工资不平等也有显著贡献。劳动力构成向自动化威胁较低或中等的职业的结构性转变导致了更高的工资不平等,这在整个考虑的时间段内都是可以观察到的。自动化对工资结构的影响在20世纪90年代和21世纪初导致了更高的不平等,而在最近的一段时间内,它对工资分配的上层有显著的减少不平等的影响。JEL分类:J31, C21, D63, O30
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Labour-England
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期刊介绍: LABOUR provides a forum for analysis and debate on issues concerning labour economics and industrial relations. The Journal publishes high quality contributions which combine economic theory and statistical methodology in order to analyse behaviour, institutions and policies relevant to the labour market.
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