Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/326871 
Year of Publication: 
2023
Series/Report no.: 
UNU-MERIT Working Papers No. 2023-021
Publisher: 
United Nations University (UNU), Maastricht Economic and Social Research Institute on Innovation and Technology (UNU-MERIT), Maastricht
Abstract: 
This paper deals with the complex relationship between innovation and the labor market, analyzing the impact of new technological advancements on overall employment, skills and wages. After a critical review of the extant literature and the available empirical studies, novel evidence is presented on the distribution of labor-saving automation (namely robotics and AI), based on natural language processing of US patents. This mapping shows that both upstream high-tech providers and downstream users of new technologies–such as Boeing and Amazon–lead the underlying innovative effort.
Subjects: 
Innovation
Technological Change
Skills
Wages
Technological Unemployment
JEL: 
O33
Creative Commons License: 
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Document Type: 
Working Paper

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