How do automation and offshorability influence unemployment duration and subsequent job quality?

"We analyze the effect of automation and offshorability on unemployment duration and post-unemployment outcomes such as wages and employment stability. Our rich administrative data allow us to evaluate the importance of providing unemployment training in this context. Employing a multivariate m...

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Main Authors: Schmidpeter, Bernhard, Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf
Institution:ETUI-European Trade Union Institute
Format: TEXT
Language:English
Published: Bonn 2018
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Online Access:https://www.labourline.org/KENTIKA-19301208124911294809-How-do-automation-and-offshora.htm
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Summary:"We analyze the effect of automation and offshorability on unemployment duration and post-unemployment outcomes such as wages and employment stability. Our rich administrative data allow us to evaluate the importance of providing unemployment training in this context. Employing a multivariate mixed proportional hazard model to deal with selectivity, we find that both the routine content in tasks as well as the probability of off-shoring negatively affects the re-employment possibilities. Labor market training is helping workers to ameliorate these negative effects and is remarkably on the spot. For workers who find re-employment, our results show that offshorability (but not automation) affects future job duration and wages positively. Our analysis reveals interesting differences by gender."
Physical Description:36 p.
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