Displaced or depressed? Working in automatable jobs and mental health

Sylvie Blasco (sylvie.blasco@unicaen.fr), Julie Rochut and Benedicte Rouland (benedicte.rouland@aut.ac.nz)
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Sylvie Blasco: UNICAEN - Université de Caen Normandie - NU - Normandie Université
Julie Rochut: INED - Institut national d'études démographiques, Caisse Nationale D'Assurance Vieillesse - Caisse Nationale D'Assurance Vieilless
Benedicte Rouland: AUT - Auckland University of Technology, LEMNA - Laboratoire d'économie et de management de Nantes Atlantique - Nantes Univ - IAE Nantes - Nantes Université - Institut d'Administration des Entreprises - Nantes - Nantes Université - pôle Sociétés - Nantes Univ - Nantes Université

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Abstract: Automation may destroy jobs and change the labor demand structure, thereby potentially impacting workers' mental health. Implementing propensity score matching on French individual survey data, we find that working in an automatable job is associated with a 3 pp increase in the probability of suffering from mental disorders. Fear of automation through fear of job loss, expectation of arequired change in skills, and fear of unwanted job mobility seem to be relevant channels to explain the findings.

Date: 2024-01-04
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Published in Industrial Relations, 2024, ⟨10.1111/irel.12356⟩

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DOI: 10.1111/irel.12356

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