Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/250370 
Year of Publication: 
2021
Series/Report no.: 
Documento de Trabajo No. 281
Publisher: 
Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Centro de Estudios Distributivos, Laborales y Sociales (CEDLAS), 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.
Subjects: 
jobs
employment
income distribution
automation
routinization
Latin America
JEL: 
J21
J23
J24
O33
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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