Arbeitspapier
Automation trends and labor markets in Latin America
This paper studies the effects of automation of production on labor market outcomes, and whether there is an effect of automation on functional and personal inequality in Latin America. The paper combines several data sources and empirical strategies in order to approach the issues from different perspectives and to cover different dimensions of labor markets. The main issues that we focus on are: i) the hypothesis that industries with a higher share of workers performing routine tasks are more likely to be affected by automation, using indexes of task routinization by occupation; and ii) the effects of automation on industry and local labor share, employment, wages, personal inequality and poverty. We focus on seven Latin American countries: Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Mexico and Peru, during the period 1992-2015.
- Language
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Englisch
- Bibliographic citation
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Series: IDB Working Paper Series ; No. IDB-WP-1371
- Classification
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Wirtschaft
Labor Force and Employment, Size, and Structure
Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity
Technological Change: Choices and Consequences; Diffusion Processes
- Subject
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automation
labor share
labor markets
functional inequality
personal inequality,Latin America
- Event
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Geistige Schöpfung
- (who)
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Brambilla, Irene
César, Andrés
Falcone, Guillermo
Gasparini, Leonardo
- Event
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Veröffentlichung
- (who)
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Inter-American Development Bank (IDB)
- (where)
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Washington, DC
- (when)
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2023
- DOI
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doi:10.18235/0005173
- Last update
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10.03.2025, 11:43 AM CET
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Object type
- Arbeitspapier
Associated
- Brambilla, Irene
- César, Andrés
- Falcone, Guillermo
- Gasparini, Leonardo
- Inter-American Development Bank (IDB)
Time of origin
- 2023