This OECD report presents evidence on the expanding scope of automation. After three decades of a secular decline in middle-income jobs, the bulk of low-skilled and low-income workers are now for the first time susceptible to computerization. Meanwhile, skilled jobs remain relatively resilient to recent trends in technology. In particular, workers with extraordinary social and creative skills will still remain in the workforce in 2030.
Future Shocks and Shifts: Challenges for the Global Workforce and Skills Development
24 April 2017
Key Authors
Other Recent Journal Article / Working Papers
Automation and Manufacturing Performance in a Developing Country
Establishment and lineage dynamics of the SARS-CoV-2 epidemic in the UK
Growth, development, and structural change at the firm- level: The example of the PR China
The economics of transition pathways: A proposed taxonomy and a policy experiment
How to accelerate green technology diffusion? Directed technological change in the presence of coevolving absorptive capacity
Social and racial inequalities in COVID-19 risk of hospitalisation and death across São Paulo state, Brazil