Ive Marx
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Ive Marx is a leading scholar in the sociology of labour and social policy, whose work illuminates the intersection of technological change, employment, and institutional resilience. His most-cited research, "Robots and unions: The moderating effect of organized labour on technological unemployment" (2022, 19 citations), makes a pivotal contribution by demonstrating that strong union density significantly buffers advanced economies against job displacement from industrial automation. Using sophisticated random-effects within-between regression models across 27 European countries and the United States, Marx provides compelling empirical evidence that organized labour does not merely resist change but actively shapes its distributional outcomes. This finding challenges deterministic narratives of technological unemployment and reframes unions as crucial institutional actors in the future of work. Marx’s scholarship is notable for its rigorous cross-national comparative approach and its timely relevance to policy debates on automation, inequality, and social protection. His work has become essential reading for researchers and students seeking to understand how collective bargaining and labour market institutions mediate the disruptive effects of Industry 4.0, cementing his reputation as a key voice in contemporary labour studies.
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