The unequal health effects of smart tech in the workplace

Melanie Arntz, Sebastian Findeisen, Stephan Maurer and Oliver Schlenker

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Abstract: How does technological progress affect workers' health? Melanie Arntz, Sebastian Findeisen, Stephan Maurer and Oliver Schlenker explore the effects of digitalisation and find evidence of worsening health among manual workers, due to the stress of performing increasingly complex tasks.

Keywords: health; inequality; technology; machines; automation; tasks; capital-labor substitution (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024-10-18
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