New automation technologies and job creation and destruction dynamics

This policy brief addresses the question of whether the unfurling technological revolution is so far-reaching in its labour-replacing potential that it is inherently different from what has been experienced in the past, and on balance is an inhibitor rather than a generator of decent work. It does so by providing the following: (1) a critical review of recent empirical studies on the effects of new automation technologies on jobs; (2) a discussion of multiple job creation and destruction dynamics and how these can offset each other at different levels of aggregation, ranging from specific task... Show more

Authors: Kucera, David

Published: Geneva, Switzerland, ILO, 2017

Resource type: Report, paper or authored book

Physical description: [6] p.

Access item: http://www.ilo.org/employment/Whatwedo/Publications/WCMS_553682/lang--en/index.htm

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