Tag: Technical

Automation and Jobs: When Technology Boosts Employment

47 Pages Posted: 18 Mar 2017 Last revised: 28 Mar 2018 Abstract

Do industries shed jobs when they adopt new labor-saving technologies? Sometimes productivity-enhancing technology increases industry employment instead. In manufacturing, jobs grew along with productivity for a century or more; only later did productivity gains bring declining employment. What changed? Markets became saturated. While the literature on structural change provides reasons for the decline in the manufacturing share of employment, few papers can explain both the rise and subsequent fall. Using two centuries of data, a simple model of demand accurately explains the rise and fall of employment […]

In growing shadow of big data, Mass. lawmakers are working to shine a light

In growing shadow of big data, Mass. lawmakers are working to shine a light

Students sit for an exam in a computer room at a technical school in Jinan, China. George Soros is right to call artificial intelligence technologies “a mortal danger” for open societies like ours ( “China and the AI threat to open societies,” Opinion, Feb. 4). In the United States, we are increasingly subject to the whims of secretive databases and algorithms. Our opportunities for housing, employment, education, and more are becoming dictated by big data and automation.

Surveillance technologies built on machine learning and big data also pose a threat to democracy, open society, and justice. Right now in Massachusetts, […]

Lousy Jobs, Lovely Jobs – and the Sagging Middle

Lousy Jobs, Lovely Jobs – and the Sagging Middle

Job-market polarisation is impeding class mobility. What does this mean for the future of management? This article is part of a series entitled “The Future of Management”, about how changes in culture and technology are reshaping what managers do. INSEAD professors Pushan Dutt and Phanish Puranam serve as academic advisors for this series.

The past four decades or so have been hard on those with dreams of climbing the socio-economic ladder. With social mobility having effectively ground to a halt in many of the world’s most advanced economies, divisions between the blue- and white-collar segments of society have clarified […]

Employment multiplier impact of sectors key to job creation

Employment multiplier impact of sectors key to job creation

LAHORE: Pakistan lacks data on employment multiplier impact of each sector, but can get guidance from the US data to create more employment opportunities in the country.

The research on US economy may not be fully relevant to Pakistan, as automation in the US is very high. Still, it can give our planners an idea on how to proceed. This government is rightly trying to boost manufacturing sector where the job creation is high. The textile sector is not included in this report because textile production in the US is mostly outsourced, but our planners have an idea about the […]

How to ‘future proof’ your career: The top 10 growth jobs over the next five years

How to ‘future proof’ your career: The top 10 growth jobs over the next five years

Worried a robot’s coming for your job? There’s still time to ‘future proof’ your career. Photo: YouTube The rise of automation and artificial intelligence means the prospect of a robot stealing your job is no-longer the stuff of science fiction.

However, there’s still time to ‘future-proof’ your career by choosing a job in one of the sectors tipped to grow over the next five years, new analysis by Sydney-based firm McCrindle has found.

From health care to sports and hospitality, these are the jobs and industries tipped to rise – and fall – over the next half decade. Four sectors to […]

How Will Automation, AI Impact Healthcare Employment?

by Jacqueline LaPointe, Revcycle Intelligence

Healthcare employment will have low exposure to automation in the next decade despite the increased use of artificial intelligence to replace some tasks, experts predict.

January 30, 2019 – Increased use of automation and artificial intelligence is slated to replace millions of jobs and tasks in the near future. However, healthcare employment is relatively safe from automation, according to a new report from the Brookings Metropolitan Policy Program.The report, titled Automation and Artificial Intelligence: How machines are affecting people and places, looks back at how automation impacted the workforce from the 1980s to […]

Whatever happened to all the jobs?

Whatever happened to all the jobs?

In the good old days of call centres, the revenues of Indian BPOs equalled the number of people they hired. Award winning journalist Goutam Das first book ‘Jobnomics’ on India’s unemployment crisis and what the future holds, could not have been more perfectly timed. The latest "unpublished" report by the National Sample Survey Office (NSSO) only confirms our worst fears, that there are not enough jobs going around, pushing young, educated youth to desperation. The anger of young people could well spell doom for the five-year-old Modi government, which is presenting its "vote-on-account", the last of its financial papers, […]

How Will Automation, AI Impact Healthcare Employment?

How Will Automation, AI Impact Healthcare Employment?

Source: Thinkstock The report, titled Automation and Artificial Intelligence: How machines are affecting people and places , looks back at how automation impacted the workforce from the 1980s to 2016 and offers projections on how new automation and artificial intelligence (AI) tools will affect the economy by 2030.

“The next phase of automation, increasingly involving AI, seems like it should be manageable in the aggregate labor market, though there are many sources of uncertainty,” Mark Muro, Senior Fellow and lead author of the report, stated in a press release . “With that said, the potential effects will vary significantly across […]

The robotic future of work is messy, fuzzy and uneven

The robotic future of work is messy, fuzzy and uneven

For nearly one hundred years, science fiction has warned of robotic takeovers and a dystopian societal collapse as pseudo-intelligent, autonomous devices discover that they have little need for humans. Videos from BostonDynamics seem designed to stoke such foreboding, at least for promotional effect. Although the prospect of rogue robots destroying their creators is remote for now, a burgeoning army of industrial robots is displacing workers in a growing number of occupations.

The extent of job losses and their long-term implications on the labor market are topics of hot debate. A recent Brookings Institute study , for example, estimates that several […]

How can you prepare for the future of work? The answer is not “learn to code.”

How can you prepare for the future of work? The answer is not “learn to code.”

Cover of Ellen Shell’s new book The Job. On the latest episode of Recode Decode , journalist and Boston University professor Ellen Shell joined Recode’s Kara Swisher in studio to talk about her latest book, The Job: Work and Its Future in a Time of Radical Change .

Shell explained why some of the conventional wisdom about the future of work is misguided and offered pragmatic advice for people entering an increasingly automated job market. She warned that the most at-risk jobs are “mid-skill” ones that are expensive for employers, which includes most software developers.

“It’s not necessarily the low-level routine […]