Recent evidence suggests that recessions play a crucial role in promoting automation and the reallocation of productive … resources. Consistent with this, I show that in the three previous Canadian recessions, routine jobs were disproportionately …, income groups, industries, and regions, the two indices are strongly negatively correlated, suggesting that automation will …

-related aspects. Labor market pressures are felt around the globe, and robots and automation increasingly become reality. However …

To examine the drivers of innovation, this paper studies the global R&D effort to fight the deadliest diseases and … innovation can be very large, as demonstrated by aggregate flow of clinical trials increasing by 38% in 2020, with limited … economists are naturally in favor of market size as a driving force for innovation (i.e."if the market size is sufficiently large …

humans can be productively employed. Recent technological change has been biased towards automation, with insufficient focus … labor demand, declining labor share in national income, rising inequality and lower productivity growth. The current … tendency is to develop AI in the direction of further automation, but this might mean missing out on the promise of the "right …

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 …

Digitalization is the buzzword under which profound changes of the labor market can be summarized. Next to automation …

Higher education contributes to economic innovation. This study measures and compares the extent to which national … higher education performance in education, research and economic innovation, using non-arbitrary weights and eighteen policy …