Technological risk and policy preferences

A Gallego, A Kuo, D Manzano… - Comparative …, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
Despite recent attention to the economic and political consequences of automation and
technological change for workers, we lack data about concerns and policy preferences …

Preferred policy responses to technological change: Survey evidence from OECD countries

MR Busemeyer, M Gandenberger… - Socio-Economic …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
How do the labor market risks associated with technological change affect policy
preferences? We argue that higher perceptions of technology-related risks should increase …

Automation and the welfare state: Technological change as a determinant of redistribution preferences

S Thewissen, D Rueda - Comparative Political Studies, 2019 - journals.sagepub.com
Technological change is widely considered to be a key driver of the economic and
occupational structure of affluent countries. Current advances in information technology …

Dealing with technological change: Social policy preferences and institutional context

MR Busemeyer, T Tober - Comparative Political Studies, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
How does technological change affect social policy preferences across different institutional
contexts? In this paper, we argue that individuals who perceive high levels of technology …

No rage against the machines: Threat of automation does not change policy preferences

B Zhang - Proceedings of the 2022 AAAI/ACM conference on AI …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
Labor-saving technology has already decreased employment opportunities for middle-skill
workers. Experts anticipate that advances in AI and robotics will cause even more significant …

Technological disruption and employment: The influence on job insecurity and turnover intentions: A multi-country study

D Brougham, J Haar - Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 2020 - Elsevier
Experts have predicted that 57% of jobs within the OECD could be replaced by technology,
due to advancements in automation, artificial intelligence, robotics, etc. Despite this, little is …

Automation and the future of work: How rhetoric shapes the response in policy preferences

K Jeffrey - Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2021 - Elsevier
I investigate how increasing perceived vulnerability to an automation shock influences
redistributive preferences, and how exposure to rhetoric mediates that response. I field a pre …

Automation, digitalization, and artificial intelligence in the workplace: implications for political behavior

A Gallego, T Kurer - Annual Review of Political Science, 2022 - annualreviews.org
New technologies have been a key driver of labor market change in recent decades. There
are renewed concerns that technological developments in areas such as robotics and …

Distributional consequences of technological change: Worker-level evidence

T Kurer, A Gallego - Research & Politics, 2019 - journals.sagepub.com
This paper explores the employment trajectories of workers exposed to technological
change. Based on individual-level panel data from the UK, we first confirm that the share of …

Misattributed blame? Attitudes toward globalization in the age of automation

N Wu - Political Science Research and Methods, 2022 - cambridge.org
Many, especially low-skilled workers, blame globalization for their economic woes. Robots
and machines, which have led to job market polarization, rising income inequality, and labor …