By Glenda Quintini and Guillermo Montt.
A range of OECD analysis (see the recent OECD Policy Brief on The Future of Work) has been exploring the relationship between digitalisation, jobs and skills, the magnitude of potential job substitution due to technological change, the relationship between globalisation and wage polarisation, as well as the changes to the organisation of work.
Technological change and digitalisation often raise fears that workers will be replaced by computers and computer-enabled robots, resulting in what has been called technological unemployment. These fears have not materialised for past technological advances as the creation of new jobs outweighed the labour-saving impact of technology. However, it has been argued that recent and future advances in computing power and artificial intelligence may lead to the automation of a much broader range of tasks than just routine tasks, including those that were previously the exclusive domain of humans, such as…
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