This paper studies how wages and productivity among publicly listed firms vary with AI attention during a period of uneven AI adoption. AI attention measures the prominence of AI in the country-level information environment. It is distinct from AI adoption. The wage measure captures average staff expenditure on wages and salaries per employee. Using data for 69,783 listed firms in 83 countries over 2004–2023, I measure this attention with Google Trends and combine TWFE, IV–2SLS, and local projections to estimate static and dynamic relationships. Among listed firms in advanced economies (AEs), higher AI attention is associated with lower wages but higher labour productivity and TFP. Listed firms in emerging market and developing economies (EMDEs) show short-run wage gains and positive productivity responses. These patterns also vary across firms, with wage declines more pronounced among smaller, lower-productivity, and goods-producing listed firms. The sample represents the organised listed corporate sector, which constitutes a particularly selective segment of the firm population in EMDEs; the wider SME, informal, and unlisted sectors remain outside the scope of the analysis. The patterns are consistent with expectations, perceived substitution risk, organisational investment, and workforce composition playing different roles in listed-firm adjustment.
The Right to Repair (R2R) is an important arena in which restrictive repair practices, including limits on access to spare parts, manuals, software, and specialised tools, as well as product designs that inhibit repair, are being contested. Although scholarly interest in R2R is growing rapidly, research remains fragmented across disciplinary and empirical domains, limiting the development of a coherent understanding of its implications for technology-society relations. In response, this paper presents a systematic literature review that maps and synthesises existing research on R2R. Specifically, it (1) consolidates empirical evidence on the implications of R2R; (2) examines how the concept has been theorised across disciplines; and (3) identifies key conceptual and methodological gaps that constrain theoretical and empirical advancement in the field. By organising this literature into coherent thematic domains and tracing the relationships between them, the review argues that the effective realisation of R2R depends on a socio-technical capacity: the practically exercisable ability to repair produced through the interaction between legal entitlements, technological architectures, economic arrangements, and social capabilities. It also reveals disciplinary and geographical imbalances and identifies four tensions structuring future research: formal ownership versus effective control, legal entitlement versus practical repair capacity, universal frameworks versus situated repair practices, and systemic transformation versus continuity.
