Technological innovations are quickly shifting the balance between activities performed by humans and tasks performed by machines. Indeed, recent research by Frey and Osborne (2017) suggests that nearly 50% of all jobs in the US face a high risk of being automated in the foreseeable future. In developing countries the risk of automation may be even higher, with up to 70% of jobs at risk (World Bank 2016, Nedelkoska and Quintini 2018). The percentage of jobs that are at risk of robotisation and automation may be particularly high in manufacturing. In this column, we highlight the core findings on […]
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