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
Englisch

Bibliographic citation
Series: IDB Working Paper Series ; No. IDB-WP-1371

Classification
Wirtschaft
Labor Force and Employment, Size, and Structure
Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity
Technological Change: Choices and Consequences; Diffusion Processes
Subject
automation
labor share
labor markets
functional inequality
personal inequality,Latin America

Event
Geistige Schöpfung
(who)
Brambilla, Irene
César, Andrés
Falcone, Guillermo
Gasparini, Leonardo
Event
Veröffentlichung
(who)
Inter-American Development Bank (IDB)
(where)
Washington, DC
(when)
2023

DOI
doi:10.18235/0005173
Last update
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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

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