Digitalization technologies, such as automation, robotization, artificial intelligence and Big Data are increasingly …

Will low-skilled workers be replaced by automation? To answer this question, we set up a search and matching model that … features two skill types of workers and includes automation capital as an additional production factor. Automation capital is a … show that the accumulation of automation capital decreases the labor market tightness in the low-skilled labor market and …

survey (ESJS), jobs are bundled according to their estimated risk of automation. The paper builds on the methodology of … very high risk of automation. The distribution of high automatability across industries and occupations is also found to be …

. Digitalisation and, especially, automation are challenges that must be faced if developing countries are to avoid premature de …

result of productivity growth (assumed to reflect automation) and are part of a long-term trend. Since the 1980s, however … capture many factors besides automation, and cautions against using descriptive evidence to draw causal inferences. It also … employment in the 2000s, but finds little evidence of a causal link to automation. …

Since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution, technological change has led to the automation of existing tasks and … with productivity growth. I provide evidence suggesting, however, that in recent decades automation has outpaced the …