Recent supply disruptions catapulted the issue of risk in global supply chains (GSCs) to the
top of policy agendas and created the impression that shortages would have been less …

There are growing fears that automation will lead to major job displacement and increasing
unemployment, particularly in labour-intensive manufacturing. This is especially worrying for …

The study analyses recent trends in teleworking, its impacts on workers, employers, and
society, and the challenges for policymaking. It provides an overview of the main legislative …

We use a rich data set of Spanish manufacturing firms from 1990 to 2016 to shed new light
on how automation in a high-income country affects trade and multinational activity involving …

The COVID-19 crisis has triggered a major shift towards telework and virtual interactions.
This paper uses information on job postings from the online job site Indeed to analyse …

Taking robotic patents between 1977 and 2017 and building upon the topic modeling
technique, we extract their latent topics, analyze how important these topics are over time …

A trend-cycle BVAR decomposition investigates the role of different slow-moving trends–ie,
globalization, expectations, automation, labor demand and supply–in shaping the slow …

The Covid-19 pandemic has hit international trade hard, creating concerns of serious
disruptions to global value chains (GVCs). This paper provides a preliminary analysis on the …

Digital technologies are radically transforming our work environments and demand for skills,
with certain jobs being automated away and others demanding mastery of new digital …

There is a broad consensus on the contribution of the so-called eco-innovations to the
sustainability transition of economic activity and on the power of policy instruments to …