Not so disruptive after all: How workplace digitalization affects political preferences
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- dc.contributor.author Gallego, Aina
- dc.contributor.author Kurer, Thomas
- dc.contributor.author Schöll, Nikolas
- dc.contributor.other Universitat Pompeu Fabra. Departament d'Economia i Empresa
- dc.date.accessioned 2020-05-25T09:26:50Z
- dc.date.available 2020-05-25T09:26:50Z
- dc.date.issued 2018-11-30
- dc.date.modified 2020-05-25T09:25:43Z
- dc.description.abstract New digital technologies are transforming workplaces, with unequal economic consequences depending on workers skills. Does digitalization also cause divergence in political preferences? Using an innovative empirical approach combining individuallevel panel data from the United Kingdom with a time-varying industry-level measure of digitalization, we first show that digitalization was economically beneficial for a majority of the labor force between 1997-2015. High-skilled workers did particularly well, they are the winners of digitalization. We then demonstrate that economic trajectories are mirrored in political preferences: Among high-skilled workers, exposure to digitalization increased voter turnout, support for the Conservatives, and support for the incumbent. An instrumental variable analysis, placebo tests and multiple robustness checks support our causal interpretation. The findings complement the dominant narrative of the "revenge of the left-behind": While digitalization undoubtedly produces losers, there is a large and often neglected group of winners who react to technological change by supporting the status quo.
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- dc.identifier https://econ-papers.upf.edu/ca/paper.php?id=1623
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- dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10230/44694
- dc.language.iso eng
- dc.relation.ispartofseries Economics and Business Working Papers Series; 1623
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- dc.subject.keyword political economy
- dc.subject.keyword digitalization
- dc.subject.keyword labor markets
- dc.subject.keyword voters
- dc.subject.keyword Labour, Public, Development and Health Economics
- dc.title Not so disruptive after all: How workplace digitalization affects political preferences
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