Robots and the gender pay gap in Europe
Men in medium and high-skill occupations disproportionately benefit from robotization, especially in countries where gender inequality was already severe.
Cevat Giray Aksoy is a Principal Economist in the Office of the Chief Economist at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development in London and an Affiliated Researcher at the London School of Economics. His main research interests are inequalities in the labour market, female labor supply and economics of fertility.
Men in medium and high-skill occupations disproportionately benefit from robotization, especially in countries where gender inequality was already severe.
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