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 …

The productivity-enhancing effects of digitalisation have generated increased interest in the promotion of digital … technologies. This report provides different estimations for euro area countries of the impact of digital uptake on productivity at … firm level, showing that the adoption of digital technologies could lead to an increase in firms' productivity in the …

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 …

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

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 …

been uneven across industries and the impact on productivity growth in most firms has been modest so far. …

recessions accelerate this process. In doing so we establish a new fact about the demand for skill over the business cycle. Using …