Template-Type: ReDIF-Paper 1.0
Author-Name: Fabio Montobbio
Author-X-Name-First: Fabio
Author-X-Name-Last: Montobbio
Author-Email: fabio.montobbio@unicatt.it
Author-Workplace-Name: Dipartimento di Politica Economica, DISCE, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milano, Italy – BRICK, Collegio Carlo Alberto, Torino, Italy – ICRIOS, Bocconi University, Milano, Italy
Author-Name: Jacopo Staccioli
Author-X-Name-First: Jacopo
Author-X-Name-Last: Staccioli
Author-Email: jacopo.staccioli@unicatt.it
Author-Workplace-Name: Dipartimento di Politica Economica, DISCE, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milano, Italy – Institute of Economics, Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Pisa, Italy
Author-Name: Maria Enrica Virgillito
Author-X-Name-First: Maria Enrica
Author-X-Name-Last: Virgillito
Author-Email: mariaenrica.virgillito@santannapisa.it
Author-Workplace-Name: Institute of Economics, Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Pisa, Italy – Dipartimento di Politica Economica, DISCE, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milano, Italy
Author-Name: Marco Vivarelli
Author-X-Name-First: Marco
Author-X-Name-Last: Vivarelli
Author-Email: marco.vivarelli@unicatt.it
Author-Workplace-Name: Dipartimento di Politica Economica, DISCE, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milano, Italy – UNU-MERIT, Maastricht, The Netherlands – IZA, Bonn, Germany
Title: The empirics of technology, employment and occupations: lessons learned and challenges ahead 
Abstract: What have we learned, from the most recent years of debate and analysis, of the future of work being threatened by technology? This paper presents a critical review of the empirical literature and outlines both lessons learned and challenges ahead. Far from being fully exhaustive, the review intends to highlight common findings and main differences across economic studies. According to our reading of the literature, a few challenges—and also the common factors affecting heterogeneous outcomes across studies—still stand, including (i) the variable used as a proxy for technology, (ii) the level of aggregation of the analyses, (iii) the deep heterogeneity of different types of technologies and their adopted mix, (iv) the structural differences across adopters, and (v) the actual combination of the organisational practices in place at the establishment level in affecting net job creation/destruction and work reorganisation. 
Length: 40
Creation-Date: 2022-11
File-URL: http://dipartimenti.unicatt.it/politica-economica-DIPE0028.pdf
File-Format: Application/pdf
File-Function: First version, 2022
Number: dipe0028
Classification-JEL: O33
Keywords: Technology, Employment, Skills, Occupations, Tasks, Future of Work
Handle: RePEc:ctc:serie5:dipe0028