Based on the methodology proposed by Frey and Osborne (2017), we use their estimates for the probability of automation … assessment for the threat that automation may pose to the Mexican labor market. We find that almost two thirds of total … employment is at high risk of automation; slightly more than half if we only consider employment in the formal sector. We argue …

investments in railways, faster structural change, and higher firm productivity. We also find that the change of political power …

In a seminal paper Graetz and Michaels (2018) find that robots increase labor productivity and TFP, lower output prices … industries leads to a sizable drop of the productivity effects, halving the effect size for labor productivity and insignificant … controlling for demographic workforce characteristics is essential for obtaining significant labor productivity effects and leads …

technologies: 1) automation technologies, 2) technologies that create new tasks, and 3) capital- or labor-augmenting technologies …. Automation technologies may either decrease or increase employment, whereas the other types of technological progress … unambiguously increase employment. Empirical estimates of the employment effects of automation are very different in different …

productivity, in part by expanding its capacities in research and development and by outsourcing support services to external …

the automation potential of tasks on a case-by-case basis and classify tasks to one or more of the five task categories … end of the envelop estimation of the number of occupations that might be at risk of automation. We find that approximately … 16 percent of the 427 ISCO-08 occupations fall into the so-called high risk of automation category – they contain 70 …