The automation of work tasks due to technological change increases the pressure on employees whose workplaces consist … substitutable tasks performed and the risk of automation. These returns to training are highly relevant, but as yet little studied … informal training on work tasks and the automation probability for workers at risk of automation. The results show that …

supply on automation innovation by exploiting an immigrant placement policy in Germany during the 1990s and 2000s. Difference …-in-differences estimates indicate that one additional worker per 1,000 manual and unskilled workers reduces automation innovation by 0 …

We show, theoretically and empirically, that the effects of technological change associated with automation and … is that better matches enjoy a comparative advantage in exploiting automation and a comparative disadvantage in … exploiting offshoring. It implies that automation (offshoring) may reduce (raise) employment by lengthening (shortening …

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