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Employment polarization in Germany: Role of technology, trade and human capital
Consoli, Davide; Roy, Ipsita - 2015
Building on the canonical model of skill-biased technical change to incorporate differential effects of technology and … subsequent adoption of computer and information technology and larger decline in routine occupations. Exposure to global imports … smaller as compared to technology. However, when looking at the direction of displacement of routine-workers, regions with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011419481
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Drivers of Labor Force Participation in Advanced Economies: Macro and Micro Evidence
Grigoli, Francesco; Koczan, Zsoka; Topalova, Petia - 2018
Despite significant headwinds from population aging in most advanced economies (AEs), labor force participation rates show remarkably divergent trajectories both across countries and across different groups of workers. Participation increased sharply among prime-age women and, more recently,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011915223
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De-Routinization in the Fourth Industrial Revolution - Firm-Level Evidence
Arntz, Melanie; Genz, Sabrina; Gregory, Terry; Lehmer, … - 2024
This paper examines the extent to which aggregate-level de-routinization can be attributed to firm-level technology … technologies. Our results suggest that an acceleration of technology adoption would be associated with faster de-routinization and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014533967
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Are we yet sick of new technologies? The unequal health effects of digitalization
Arntz, Melanie; Findeisen, Sebastian; Maurer, Stephan; … - 2024
. Unlike more mature, computer-based technologies, frontier technologies of the recent technology wave substantially lower …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014567560
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The risk of automation in Argentina
Gasparini, Leonardo; Brambilla, Irene; César, Andrés; … - 2020
In this paper we characterize workers' vulnerability to automation in the near future in Argentina as a function of the exposure to routinization of the tasks that they perform and the potential automation of their occupation. In order to do that we combine (i) indicators of potential...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012876034
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Routinization and employment: Evidence for Latin America
Gasparini, Leonardo; Lombardo, Carlo; Brambilla, Irene; … - 2021
We study changes in employment by occupations characterized by different degree of exposure to routinization in the six largest Latin American economies over the last two decades. We combine our own indicators of routine task content based on information from the Programme for the International...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012876050
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Automatización y pandemia: Amenazas sobre el empleo en América Latina
Bonavida, Cristian; Brambilla, Irene; Gasparini, Leonardo - 2021
We study the risk of automation, the unfeasibility of teleworking and the risk of contagion due to physical proximity in the six largest economies in Latin America. We find that workers with low education, informal, and low-wage levels are the most exposed to this type of risk. Automation and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014327912
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De-routinization in the fourth industrial revolution: Firm-level evidence
Arntz, Melanie; Genz, Sabrina; Gregory, Terry; Lehmer, … - 2024
This paper examines the extent to which aggregate-level de-routinization can be attributed to firm-level technology … technologies. Our results suggest that an acceleration of technology adoption would be associated with faster de-routinization and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014470162
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Are we yet sick of new technologies? The unequal health effects of digitalization
Arntz, Melanie; Findeisen, Sebastian; Maurer, Stephan; … - 2024
. Unlike more mature, computer-based technologies, frontier technologies of the recent technology wave substantially lower …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014506957
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What explains India's poor performance in garments exports: Evidence from five clusters?
Ray, Saon - 2019
in explaining sales in most equations is technology proxied by imported machinery. It has been argued that inter …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012099547