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accurate analysts, leaving for non-research jobs. Reallocating efforts toward tasks that rely on social skills improve …
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contribution of automation to the task content and skills complexity of the jobs of incumbent workers. Despite the recent focus on … the polarising impact of automation and associated reskilling needs of lower-skilled individuals, our evidence also draws …
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We develop an assignment model of automation. Each of a continuum of tasks of variable complexity is assigned to either … capital or one of a continuum of labor skills. We characterize conditions for interior automation, whereby tasks of … automation pushes workers into tasks at the lower and upper ends of the task distribution. It also monotonically increases the …
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technological change that automates or augments workers’ job tasks and their participation in work-related training. We find that 58 …-21 period. Of those exposed to new digital technology, 14 per cent did not experience any change in job tasks, 10 per cent … reported that new tasks had been created while 5 per cent only saw some of their tasks being displaced by new technology. The …
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The smart glove or smart data glasses: Digitalization of work means that technology is moving closer to the bodies of employees. It can make movements, vital signs and even emotions visible. Technologies which many people use privately to monitor their sporting activities or health opens up a...
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data set for Chilean firms in all sectors between 2007 and 2013. While previous studies examine the impacts of automation … on the use of routine tasks by middle-educated workers. This study focuses on a measure of complex software that is … typically used by more educated workers in cognitive and nonroutine tasks for client, production, and business management. The …
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executing nonroutine abstract tasks, and substitutes for unskilled workers in performing routine tasks. When we use our …
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data set for Chilean firms in all sectors between 2007 and 2013. While previous studies examine the impacts of automation … on the use of routine tasks by middle-educated workers, this study focuses on a measure of complex software that is … typically used by more educated workers in cognitive and nonroutine tasks for client, production, and business management. The …
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This paper studies changes in computer use and job quality in the EU-15 between 1995 and 2015. We document that while the proportion of workers using computers has increased from 40% to more than 60% over twenty years, there remain significant differences between countries even within the same...
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