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The empirics of technology, employment and occupations: lessons learned and challenges ahead |
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Fabio Montobbio, Jacopo Staccioli, Maria Enrica Virgillito and Marco Vivarelli |
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Technology; Employment; Skills; Occupations; Tasks; Future of Work.
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O33
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What have we learned, from the most recent years of debate and analysis, of the
future of work being threatened by technology? This paper presents a critical
review of the empirical literature and outlines both lessons learned and challenges
ahead. Far from being fully exhaustive, the review intends to highlight common
findings and main differences across economic studies. According to our reading of
the literature, a few challenges-and also the common factors affecting
heterogeneous outcomes across studies-still stand, including (i) the variable used
as a proxy for technology, (ii) the level of aggregation of the analyses, (iii) the deep
heterogeneity of different types of technologies and their adopted mix, (iv) the
structural differences across adopters, and (v) the actual combination of the
organisational practices in place at the establishment level in affecting net job
creation/destruction and work reorganisation.
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