Are we yet sick of new technologies? : the unequal health effects of digitalization / Melanie Arntz, Sebastian Findeisen, Stephan Maurer and Oliver Schlenke
Contributor(s): Resource type: Ressourcentyp: Buch (Online)Book (Online)Language: English Series: Centre for Economic Policy Research. Discussion papers ; DP18913Publisher: London : Centre for Economic Policy Research, 12 March 2024Description: 1 Online-Ressource (circa 56 Seiten) : IllustrationenSubject(s): Genre/Form: Online resources: Summary: This study quantifies the relationship between workplace digitalization, i.e., the increasing use of frontier technologies, and workers’ health outcomes using novel and representative German linked employer-employee data. Based on changes in individual-level use of technologies between 2011 and 2019, we find that digitalization induces similar shifts into more complex and service-oriented tasks across all workers, but exacerbates health inequality between cognitive and manual workers. Unlike more mature, computer-based technologies, frontier technologies of the recent technology wave substantially lower manual workers’ subjective health and increase sick leave, while leaving cognitive workers unaffected. We provide evidence that the effects are mitigated in firms that provide training and assistance in the adjustment process for workers.PPN: PPN: 1883748518Package identifier: Produktsigel: ZDB-1-CEPPNo physical items for this record