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Automation, Skill and Job Creation
Guo, Kaizhao - 2022
This paper explores the heterogeneous effects of automation technologies on employment rate with respect to proportion … of skilled workers, represented by regions from different income groups. Automation, as measured by both robotic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013288861
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The 'Dynamic' of Job Competition During the ICT Revolution
Chéron, Arnaud - 2012
Our paper seeks to gain insights on the effect of labor market institutions on the evolution of overeducation (job competition), unemployment inequalities and job instability during the polarization process of the labor market fostered by the diffusion of novel technologies. Based on micro data,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012755400
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Who are afraid of losing their jobs to artificial intelligence and robots? : evidence from a survey
Morikawa, Masayuki - 2017
This study, using original survey data of 10,000 individuals, analyzes the possible impacts of artificial intelligence (AI) and robotics on employment. The first interest of this study is to ascertain, from the viewpoint of workers, what types of worker characteristics are associated with the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012114023
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Automation, offshoring, and the role of public policies
Schmidpeter, Bernhard; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - 2019
We provide comprehensive evidence on the consequences of automation and offshoreability on the career of unemployed … automation is reducing the job finding probability; a problem which has increased over the past years. We show that this … between quantity and quality in these jobs. Provided training is beneficial in counteracting the negative impact of automation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012137059
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Automation and Gender : Implications for Occupational Segregation and the Gender Skill Gap
Cortés, Patricia; Feng, Ying; Guida-Johnson, Nicolás; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
We examine the differential effects of automation on the labor market and educational outcomes of women relative to men … over the past four decades. Although women were disproportionately employed in occupations with a high risk of automation … link by exploiting variation in local labor market exposure to automation attributable to historical differences in local …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014468230
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Education, lack of complementary investment and underemployment in an open economy
Marjit, Sugata; Ahuja, Rashmi; Pandey, Abhilasha - 2021
underemployment. Our paper offers to look at skill formation as a demand side problem not as a traditional supply side problem and … group leading to underemployment through the expansion of the informal sector. Both effects are due to shortage of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012612938
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The rise of generative AI : modelling exposure, substitution, and inequality effects on the US labour market
Auer, Raphael A.; Köpfer, David; Švéda, Josef - 2024
How exposed is the labour market to ever-advancing AI capabilities, to what extent does this substitute human labour, and how will it affect inequality? We address these questions in a simulation of 711 US occupations classified by the importance and level of cognitive skills. We base our...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015077845
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Overeducation, skill mismatches, and labor market outcomes for college graduates : overskilling or overskilling plus overeducation are more likely than overeducation alone to harm...
Sloane, Peter J. - 2014
There is evidence that many college graduates are employed in jobs for which a degree is not required, and in which the skills they learned in college are not being fully used. Most of the literature on educational or skill mismatch is based on cross-sectional data, providing information at just...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011420242
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Education mismatch, human capital and labour status of young people across European Union countries
Pompei, Fabrizio; Skoglund, Ekaterina - 2015
This paper analyses the influence of country-level education mismatch on the individual-level relationship between education and the probability of being unemployed or staying in alternative labour statuses, for young people aged 15-34 in 2006, 2008 and 2010, living in 21 EU countries. We assume...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011298528
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A new approach to skills mismatch
Brun-Schammé, Amandine - 2021
Skills mismatch - the sub-optimal use of an individual's skills in their occupation - can be a source of dissatisfaction for workers and a brake for productivity growth. In our view, a difference in the level of skills within an occupation is not sufficient to infer that a skills mismatch...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012630320