The empirics of technology, employment and occupations: Lessons learned and challenges ahead

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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.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: LEM Working Paper Series ; No. 2022/35

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Technological Change: Choices and Consequences; Diffusion Processes
• Subject: Technology ; Employment ; Skills ; Occupations ; Tasks ; Future of Work

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Montobbio, Fabio ; Staccioli, Jacopo ; Virgillito, Maria Enrica ; Vivarelli, Marco
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Laboratory of Economics and Management (LEM)
• (where): Pisa
• (when): 2022

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/273637
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:41 AM CET