In this paper we characterize workers’ vulnerability to automation in the near future in the six largest Latin American … economies as a function of the exposure to routinization of the tasks that they perform and the potential automation of their … other labor variables. We find that the ongoing process of automation is likely to significantly affect the structure of …

This paper studies the effects of automation of production on labor market outcomes, and whether there is an effect of … automation on functional and personal inequality in Latin America. The paper combines several data sources and empirical … are more likely to be affected by automation, using indexes of task routinization by occupation; and ii) the effects of …

increase economic output but may also displace workers. In this paper we assess the risk of automation for female and male … automation, and 21% of women vs. 19% of men are at high risk (probability of automation greater than 70%). The differential …