Did the Governance of EU Funds Help Italian Regional Labour Markets during the Great Recession?

2019 ◽  
Vol 58 (2) ◽  
pp. 235-255 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roberta Arbolino ◽  
Paolo Di Caro ◽  
Ugo Marani
Keyword(s):  
Great Recession ◽  
Labour Markets ◽  
The Great Recession ◽  
Regional Labour Markets

Robots, skill demand and manufacturing in US regional labour markets

2019 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 77-97 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nancey Green Leigh ◽  
Benjamin Kraft ◽  
Heonyeong Lee
Keyword(s):  
Artificial Intelligence ◽  
Great Recession ◽  
International Federation ◽  
Labour Markets ◽  
The Other ◽  
Manufacturing Employment ◽  
The Great Recession ◽  
The Usa ◽  
Regional Labour Markets ◽  
Job Postings

Abstract Advances in robotics and artificial intelligence (AI) technology have spurred a re-examination of technology’s impacts on jobs and the economy. This article reviews several key contributions to the current jobs/AI debate, discusses their limitations and offers a modified approach, analysing two quantitative models in tandem. One uses robot stock data from the International Federation of Robotics as the primary indicator of robot use, whereas the other uses online job postings requiring robot-related skills. Together, the models suggest that since the Great Recession ended, robots have contributed positively to manufacturing employment in the USA at the metropolitan level.

scholarly journals The Role of Migration as Adjustment Mechanism in the Crisis and EMU

2018 ◽  
Vol 66 (6) ◽  
pp. 1497-1508 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Huber
Keyword(s):  
Great Recession ◽  
Labour Markets ◽  
Economic Conditions ◽  
Foreign Born ◽  
Demographic Groups ◽  
The Great Recession ◽  
Adjustment Mechanism ◽  
Substantial Heterogeneity ◽  
The Eu

Using ELFS data from 2004 to 2014 we analyse labour migration as an adjustment mechanism to asymmetric regional labour demand shocks shortly before, during and after the Great Recession in the EU. The results suggest that in this period migration was rather responsive to regional economic conditions, but also point to a substantial heterogeneity across demographic groups, periods and country groups. The mobility of high‑skilled persons and foreign born contributed much more strongly to the adjustment of labour markets than the migration of less‑skilled and natives. Furthermore, among the large integration steps from 2004 to 2014 (i.e., the accession of 12 countries to the EU and the successive liberalisation of immigration from the countries joining the EU after 2004 and Euro accession) mainly the EU‑enlargements worked to improve the adjustment capability of European labour markets through migration.

Two‐Tier Labour Markets in the Great Recession: FranceVersusSpain

2012 ◽  
Vol 122 (562) ◽  
pp. F155-F187 ◽  
Author(s):  
Samuel Bentolila ◽  
Pierre Cahuc ◽  
Juan J. Dolado ◽  
Thomas Le Barbanchon
Keyword(s):  
Great Recession ◽  
Labour Markets ◽  
The Great Recession

scholarly journals Deepening Neoliberalism via Austerity and ‘Reform’: The Case of Ireland

2013 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 38-53 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alistair Fraser ◽  
Enda Murphy ◽  
Sinéad Kelly
Keyword(s):  
Economic Crisis ◽  
Great Recession ◽  
Labour Markets ◽  
Tax Rates ◽  
Corporation Tax ◽  
The Great Recession ◽  
Current Economic Crisis ◽  
Private Banks ◽  
New Phase ◽  
Bubble Burst

The current economic crisis – the ‘great recession’ – raises numerous questions about neoliberal ideas and practice, not the least of which is whether (and if so, how) neoliberalism can survive it. Our paper takes on these issues using the case of Ireland. This is the first proper neoliberal crisis in Ireland. From the early 1990s to 2008, Ireland was held up by many neoliberal champions as a place that gained from deregulation, openness to inward investment, and low corporation tax rates. But the build-up of contradictions in Ireland exploded rapidly in 2008, when its property bubble burst and private banks and government finances collapsed. Rather than examining what caused Ireland's crisis, we look at what has happened between 2008 and 2013. We focus on structural adjustments regarding the property, finance, and labour markets and then on the government's austerity programme as a whole. In addition to demonstrating how these adjustments have been an attack on workers and ordinary citizens, we identify some particularly striking elements, which we use to argue that a new phase of disturbance and restructuring is deepening and extending neoliberalism's influence in Ireland.

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