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The role of skills and tasks in changing employment trends and income inequality in Chile
Zapata-Román, Gabriela - 2021
), and to jobs demanding routine manual and cognitive tasks (services and sales). Changes in occupational earnings have had …
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Multi-task learning and the reorganization of work : from Tayloristic to holistic organization
Lindbeck, Assar; Snower, Dennis J. - 1999
shift from a "Tayloristic" organization of work (characterized by significant specialization by tasks) to a "holistic …" organization (featuring job rotation, integration of tasks and learning across tasks). We examine four driving forces behind this …
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Automation technologies and employment at risk : the case of Mexico
Cebreros, Alfonso; Heffner-Rodríguez, Aldo; Livas, René; … - 2020
Based on the methodology proposed by Frey and Osborne (2017), we use their estimates for the probability of automation of occupations together with household survey data on the occupational distribution of employment to provide a risk assessment for the threat that automation may pose to the...
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The future of work : how G20 countries can leverage digital-industrial innovations into stronger high-quality jobs growth
Annunziata, Marco; Bourgeois, Hendrik - 2018
A new wave of innovation is beginning to disrupt industry on a global scale. It constitutes a tremendous opportunity for faster productivity growth, but also a potential disruption to a number of economic sectors and to job markets. Academic research and the public debate have focused mostly on...
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The future of work : how G20 countries can leverage digital-industrial innovations into stronger high-quality jobs growth
Annunziata, Marco; Bourgeois, Hendrik - 2018
The wave of digital-industrial innovation which begins to disrupt vast sectors of the global economy has fueled fear of a potential adverse impact on jobs and wages. This paper argues that digitalindustrial innovations make human capital more important than ever and the focus needs to shift to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011869165
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Distorted Innovation : Does the Market Get the Direction of Technology Right?
Acemoglu, Daron - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
In the presence of markup differences, externalities and other social considerations, the equilibrium direction of innovation can be systematically distorted. This paper builds a simple model of endogenous technology, which generalizes existing comparative static results and characterizes...
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New evidence on the effect of technology on employment and skill demand
Hirvonen, Johannes; Stenhammar, Aapo; Tuhkuri, Joonas - 2022
We present novel evidence on the effects of advanced technologies on employment, skill demand, and firm performance. The main finding is that advanced technologies led to increases in employment and no change in skill composition. Our main research design focuses on a technology subsidy program...
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Artificial intelligence, tasks, skills and wages : worker-level evidence from Germany
Engberg, Erik; Koch, Michael; Lodefalk, Magnus; … - 2023
This paper documents novel facts on within-occupation task and skill changes over the past two decades in Germany. In a second step, it reveals a distinct relationship between occupational work content and exposure to artificial intelligence (AI) and automation (robots). Workers in occupations...
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Task specialization and cognitive skills: evidence from PIAAC and IALS
Martinez-Matute, Marta; Villanueva, Ernesto - 2020
We study how the tasks conducted on the job relate to measures of cognitive skills using data from 18 countries … models suggest that low-educated workers in jobs involving a particular set of basic tasks - say, in numeric rather than … reading or ICT tasks - obtain 10% of one standard deviation higher scores in the domain of the PIAAC assessment most related …
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Skills-displacing technological change and its impact on jobs: challenging technological alarmism?
McGuinness, Séamus; Pouliakas, Konstantinos; Redmond, Paul - 2019
We use data from a new international dataset - the European Skills and Jobs Survey - to create a unique measure of skills-displacing technological change (SDT), defined as technological change that may render workers' skills obsolete. We find that 16 percent of adult workers in the EU are...
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