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Title: Automation, Globalization and Vanishing Jobs: A Labor Market Sorting View

Author(s): Ester Faia, Sebastien Laffitte, Max Mayer and Gianmarco Ottaviano

Publication Date: May 2020

Keyword(s): automation, core-task-biased technological change, horizontal specialization, offshoring, positive assortativity, two-sided heterogeneity and Wage inequality

Programme Area(s): International Macroeconomics and Finance, International Trade and Regional Economics and Macroeconomics and Growth

Abstract: We show, theoretically and empirically, that the effects of technological change associated with automation and offshoring on the labor market can substantially deviate from standard neoclassical conclusions when search frictions hinder efficient assortative matching between firms with heterogeneous tasks and workers with heterogeneous skills. Our key hypothesis is that better matches enjoy a comparative advantage in exploiting automation and a comparative disadvantage in exploiting offshoring. It implies that automation (offshoring) may reduce (raise) employment by lengthening (shortening) unemployment duration due to higher (lower) match selectivity. We find empirical support for this implication in a dataset covering 92 occupations and 16 sec- tors in 13 European countries from 1995 to 2010.

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Faia, E, Laffitte, S, Mayer, M and Ottaviano, G. 2020. 'Automation, Globalization and Vanishing Jobs: A Labor Market Sorting View'. London, Centre for Economic Policy Research. https://cepr.org/active/publications/discussion_papers/dp.php?dpno=14787