Are we yet sick of new technologies?: the unequal health effects of digitalization
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...
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| Format: | Book/Monograph Working Paper |
| Language: | English |
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Konstanz
KOPS Universität Konstanz
2024
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| Series: | Working Paper Series
no. 19 (March 2024) |
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Working Paper Series (no. 19 (March 2024))
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| Online Access: | Resolving-System, kostenfrei, Volltext: http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:352-2-kgiedgrv7bf21 Verlag, kostenfrei: https://kops.uni-konstanz.de/bitstreams/11e4ed8b-f6df-44bd-9e68-dabd4b77c967/download Resolving-System, kostenfrei: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/289440 
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| Author Notes: | Melanie Arntz, Sebastian Findeisen, Stephan Maurer, Oliver Schlenker |
| 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. |
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| Physical Description: | Online Resource |