The Risk of Automation for Jobs in OECD Countries: A Comparative Analysis

This paper takes an approach different from the more common occupation-based approach which assumes that whole occupations rather than single job-tasks are automated by technology. This study, in order to avoid overestimation of job automability, estimates the job automatibility of jobs for 21 OECD countries based on a task-based approach which focuses on heterogeneity of workers within occupations. It also argues that technology utilisation is a slow process, does not necessarily cause technological unemployment and in fact, also generates more jobs.