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The Future of Work Under Siege: Fear of Automation by the Middle Class
Introduction Horse-back riders fearing to be replaced by cars, postmen fearing to be replaced by e-mails and more recently an accountant fearing to be replaced by robots. New technological advances that will replace your job is a 500-year-old discussion regarding anxiety about automation and is recognized throughout history. Ricardo’s book On the Principles of Political…
Automation and the Future of Work
Abstract This paper analyzes cross-country firm-level data from 11 European countries and the USA between 1995-2017 to uncover the effect of technological innovations on increasing labor market polarization within industries in advanced economies. It contributes to the existing literature by making an extension on the theoretical framework of Acemoglu & Restrepo (2018) and by making…
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