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Reducing automation risk through career mobility: Where and for whom?

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  • László Czaller
  • Rikard H. Eriksson
  • Balázs Lengyel

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Automation risk prevails less in large cities compared to small cities but little is known about the drivers of this emerging urban phenomenon. A major challenge is that automation risk is quantified by work‐related tasks that allows for measurement through occupation, which is in turn implicitly related to local economic structure and to individual career paths. This paper examines the role of working in cities on changes in automation risk through individual career mobility. Using panel data on Swedish workers, we show that the metropolitan effect of reducing automation risk is mainly induced through inter‐firm job mobility. Separate estimates for different groups show that this effect accrues mostly to native, high‐skilled and male workers. El riesgo de automatización prevalece menos en las grandes ciudades que en las pequeñas, pero se sabe poco sobre los factores que impulsan este fenómeno urbano emergente. Una de las principales dificultades es que el riesgo de automatización se cuantifica mediante tareas relacionadas con el trabajo que permiten la medición a través de la profesión, que a su vez está relacionada implícitamente con la estructura económica local y con las trayectorias profesionales individuales. Este artículo explora el papel del trabajo en las ciudades en los cambios en el riesgo de automatización a través de la movilidad de trayectorias profesionales individuales. Se utilizaron datos de panel sobre trabajadores suecos, con los que se mostró que el efecto metropolitano de la reducción del riesgo de automatización está inducido principalmente por la movilidad laboral entre empresas. Las estimaciones separadas para los distintos grupos muestran que este efecto corresponde sobre todo a los trabajadores nativos, altamente cualificados y de sexo masculino. オートメーション(自動化)のリスクは小都市に比べて大都市では少ないが、この新たな都市現象の要因についてはほとんど解明されていない。オートメーションのリスクは職業による測定を可能にする仕事に関連するタスクによって定量化されるのであるが、逆にそれは、地域の経済構造や個人のキャリアパスに絶対的に関連するということが大きな課題である。本稿では、個人の雇用流動性によるオートメーションのリスクの変化における都市部で働くことの役割を検討する。スウェーデンの労働者に関するパネルデータを用いて、オートメーションのリスクを低減する大都市効果は、主に企業間の雇用流動性によって惹起されることを示す。異なる集団の各々の推定から、この効果の恩恵の大部分は、地元出身でスキルが高い男性の労働者が受けていることが示される。

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  • László Czaller & Rikard H. Eriksson & Balázs Lengyel, 2021. "Reducing automation risk through career mobility: Where and for whom?," Papers in Regional Science, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 100(6), pages 1545-1569, December.
  • Handle: RePEc:bla:presci:v:100:y:2021:i:6:p:1545-1569
    DOI: 10.1111/pirs.12635
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