Training Requirements, Automation, and Job Polarisation

Abstract We analyse how job training requirements interact with engineering complexity in shaping firms’ automation decisions. A model that distinguishes between a task’s engineering complexity and its training requirements predicts that when two tasks are equally complex, firms automate the task th...

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Volume:	130
Main Author:	Feng, Andy Graetz, Georg
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Place of publication:	OXFORD Oxford University Press 01.10.2020 OXFORD UNIV PRESS
published in:	The Economic journal (London) Vol. 130; no. 631; pp. 2249 - 2271
Data of publication:	2020-10-01
ISSN:	0013-0133 1468-0297
EISSN:	1468-0297
Discipline:	Economics
Subjects:	Economics Business & Economics Social Sciences TASK BIASED TECHNOLOGICAL-CHANGE EMPLOYMENT SKILL CONTENT GROWTH
Online Access:	Fulltext
Database:	Oxford Journals Open Access Collection Social Sciences Citation Index Web of Science - Social Sciences Citation Index – 2020 Web of Knowledge Web of Science CrossRef Database information Databases - DBIS