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Southern perspectives on global changes. Navigate through all our work and explore the research on the interplay between technological change and labor markets in the emerging world.

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Routine Biased
Technological Change
in a Middle-income
Country: the Case of South Africa

January 2022

  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.

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Gender Differences in
Automation Risk in
Developing Country
Labor Markets


January 2022

  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.

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