Automation and jobs: when technology boosts employment

Will new technologies cause industries to shed jobs, requiring novel policies to address mass unemployment? Sometimes productivity-enhancing technology increases industry employment instead. In manufacturing, jobs grew along with productivity for a century or more; only later did productivity gains...

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Main Author: Bessen, J. (Author)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Oxford University Press 2019
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