Why Isn't Automation Creating Unemployment? | Technology ...
· Gaggl and Wright (2017) find that IT tended to raise employment in wholesale, retail, and finance industries, but had no statistically significant effect on other sectors, including manufacturing. Mann and Puttman (2017) also find that automation, measured using patents, led to job declines in manufacturing, but job growth in the service sector. Akerman, Gaarder, and Mogstad (2015) find that ...