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The country is not neither prepared for, nor used to, change on the scale required to deal with climate change, Brexit, an ageing population, Covid and technological shifts, says report by the Economy 2030 Inq... Read more...
18 May 2021
A joint project by the Resolution Foundation thinktank and the London School of Economics said the UK was neither used to nor prepared for the challenges posed by the aftermath of Covid-19, Brexit, the ne... Read more...
Of course, the elasticity of the response to automation is an empirical question. Recent studies indeed find evidence of positive employment responses in some industries with new information technologies, automation, and... Read more...
13 September 2019
12 September 2019
But unlike many researchers, who maintain a laser-like focus on the question of whether minimum wage cuts jobs in the short term, Neumark has examined the policy from many angles. A recent paper of his, along ... Read more...
23 August 2017
Two economists said they've found new evidence that minimum-wage hikes force employers to automate low-skilled workers' jobs, reports CNBC. According to David Neumark of UC Irvine and Grace Lordan of t... Read more...
21 August 2017
A sharp minimum wage increase in the U.S. will most severely impact low-skilled workers, according to an analysis of U.S. Census Bureau “Current Population Survey” data from 1980 to 2015 by economi... Read more...
17 August 2017
There is new evidence that raising the minimum wage pushes business owners to replace low-skilled workers with automation. And it shows that old, young, female and black low-skilled workers face the highest le... Read more...
The main people behind the study are London School of Economics’ Grace Lordan and University of California, Irvine’s David Neumark. Their conclusion is that “low-skilled” workers are at... Read more...
16 August 2017
New research indicates that minimum-wage laws have forced companies to accelerate the introduction of technology in the workplace, hurting American workers in mostly low-skilled jobs. The findings come from a ... Read more...
A $1 increase in the federal minimum wage could cost the national economy tens of thousands of jobs, according to a new study by economists Grace Lordan of the London School of Economics and David Neumark of t... Read more...
In a new study, two economists, Grace Lordan of the London School of Economics and David Neumark of the University of California at Irvine, analyzed 35 years of census data from the United States. The dat... Read more...
The desire for a higher wage is pretty self explanatory. However, the impact a minimum wage increase could have on society is not so clear. In an effort to shed light on this subject, researchers at the Nat... Read more...
15 August 2017
Grandma got replaced by a robot Old, lower-skilled manufacturing employees lose jobs to robots amid minimum wage increases, new research from the University of California at Irvine’s David Neumar... Read more...
When the minimum wage goes up, the robots come for people's jobs. That's the upshot of a paper published today on the National Bureau of Economic Research's website (abstract, full PDF paywalled), ... Read more...
A new working paper by Grace Lordan of the London School of Economics and David Neumark of the University of California at Irvine finds that increasing the minimum wage lowers the share of jobs susceptible to ... Read more...
14 August 2017
States that raise their minimum wages may put low-skill workers at risk of having their jobs automated, according to a new academic paper published Monday. The study published by the National Bureau of Economi... Read more...
In People Versus Machines: The Impact of Minimum Wages on Automatable Jobs, Grace Lordan, associate professor in health economics at the London School of Economics, and David Neumark, professor of economics at... Read more...
El predominio de las firmas de menos de 10 empeados es in obstaculo para la productividad e internacionalizacion Article by Luis Garicano, Claire LeLarge and John Van Reenen The prevalence of firms of le... Read more...
22 January 2017
Moreover, the recent “Robots at Work” study carried out by Uppsala University and the London School of Economics (LSE), found that, as of 1993, the U.K. ranked eighth out of 17 developed countries ... Read more...
17 November 2016
In a March 2015 paper, Robots at Work, Georg Graetz of Uppsala University and Guy Michaels of the London School of Economics concentrate on the economic effects of industrial robots. They base their research on data coll... Read more...
31 July 2015
The rise of the robots - how automation of the shop-floor is increasing as is the household use of these machines - has been expansively commented upon. But what the gradual adoption of bots has meant for industry, has, ... Read more...
31 March 2015