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In recent years, there has been a revival of concerns that automation and digitalisation might after all result in a …, differences in previous investments into automation technologies as well as differences in the education of workers across …
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This study focuses on the risk of automation and its interaction with training and the use of skills at work. Building … on the expert assessment carried out by Carl Frey and Michael Osborne in 2013, the paper estimates the risk of automation … the individual risk of automation by using a more disaggregated occupational classification and identifying the same …
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With almost 50 per cent of the working age population not working, improving labour market performance represents an essential and daunting challenge for Poland. While some of today’s joblessness is cyclical in nature, most of it appears to be structural. This paper argues that to increase...
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The strength of the German labour market response to the financial crisis of 2008-09 demonstrated the benefits of past labour market reforms, which raised work incentives, improved job matching and increased working hour flexibility. Going forward, the government should build on this success and...
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Technologies such as cloud computing, software to automate supplier- and customer relations, online platforms and artificial intelligence seem to offer a vast potential to boost productivity and living standards. However, aggregate productivity growth has declined sharply across the OECD over...
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This article reviews the literature on automation and its impact on labor markets, wages, factor shares, and … market trends and the effects of automation technologies. The task model clarifies that automation technologies operate by … task models and the displacement effects of automation. I conclude by discussing shortcomings of the existing literature …
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The youth population bulge is often mentioned in discussions of youth unemployment and unrest in developing countries … to fall. Evidence on the link between youth bulges and youth unemployment is mixed. It should not be assumed that … declines in the relative size of the youth population will translate into falling youth unemployment without further policy …
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intermediated by digital platforms. Such workers are less covered by public social safety nets such as unemployment insurance than …
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We examine the differential effects of automation on the labor market and educational outcomes of women relative to men … over the past four decades. Although women were disproportionately employed in occupations with a high risk of automation … link by exploiting variation in local labor market exposure to automation attributable to historical differences in local …
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factory automation. We build a novel measure of exposure to computer numerical control (CNC) based on initial variation in …
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