Automation, Offshoring and the Role of Public Policies

Bernhard Schmidpeter () and Rudolf Winter-Ebmer
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Bernhard Schmidpeter: Leibniz Institute for Economic Research, https://sites.google.com/site/bernhardecon/

No 2019-14, Economics working papers from Department of Economics, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria

Abstract: We provide comprehensive evidence on the consequences of automation and o shoreability on the labor market career of unemployed workers. Using almost two decades of administrative data for Austria, we find that risk of automation is reducing the job finding probability; a problem which has increased over the past years. We show that this development is associated with increasing re-employment wages and job stability. For workers in occupations at risk of being offshored we find the opposite effect. Our results imply a trade-o between quantity and quality in these jobs. Provided training is in general beneficial for workers in automation-related jobs.

Date: 2019-06
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