Production automation upgrades and the mystery of workers' overwork: Evidence from a manufacturing employer-employee matching survey in China
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Production automation upgrades; Overwork; Deskilling; Working hours;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- J53 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Labor-Management Relations, Trade Unions, and Collective Bargaining - - - Labor-Management Relations; Industrial Jurisprudence
- O33 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Innovation; Research and Development; Technological Change; Intellectual Property Rights - - - Technological Change: Choices and Consequences; Diffusion Processes
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