The Risk of Automation in Latin America

Leonardo Gasparini, Irene Brambilla, Guillermo Falcone, Carlo Lombardo and Andrés César
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Irene Brambilla: CEDLAS-IIE-FCE-UNLP & CONICET
Guillermo Falcone: CEDLAS-IIE-FCE-UNLP & CONICET

CEDLAS, Working Papers from CEDLAS, Universidad Nacional de La Plata

Abstract: In this paper we characterize workers’ vulnerability to automation in the near future in the six largest Latin American economies as a function of the exposure to routinization of the tasks that they perform and the potential automation of their occupation. We combine (i) indicators of potential automatability by occupation and (ii) worker’s information on occupation and other labor variables. We find that the ongoing process of automation is likely to significantly affect the structure of employment. In particular, unskilled and semi-skilled workers are likely to bear a disproportionate share of the adjustment costs. Automation will probably be a more dangerous threat for equality than for overall employment.

JEL-codes: J21 J23 J24 O33 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 51 pages
Date: 2021-06
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-lam, nep-lma, nep-ltv, nep-ore and nep-tid
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