Joel Gondwe, Rulof Burger, Janneke Pieters
This new paper investigates the effects of routine-biased technological change in South Africa and the unequal effects within the labor market.
Ana Kujundzic, Janneke Pieters
This paper studies to what extent jobs done by women are more at risk of automation than jobs done by men, using recently collected data for urban labor markets in 13 low-and-middle-income countries.
Leonardo Gasparini, Irene Brambilla, Cristian Bonavida
This working papers studies the risk of automation, the unfeasibility of teleworking and the risk of contagion due to physical proximity in the six largest economies in Latin America.
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