TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Montobbio, Fabio
AU  - Staccioli, Jacopo
AU  - Virgillito, Maria Enrica
AU  - Vivarelli, Marco
        TI  - Labour-Saving Automation and Occupational Exposure: A Text-Similarity Measure
        PY  - 2021/Dec/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 14879
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp14879
        AB  - This paper represents one of the first attempts at building a direct measure of occupational exposure to robotic labour-saving technologies. After identifying robotic and LS robotic patents retrieved by Montobbio et al. (2022), the underlying 4-digit CPC definitions are employed in order to detect functions and operations performed by technological artefacts which are more directed to substitute the labour input. This measure allows to obtain fine-grained information on tasks and occupations according to their similarity ranking. Occupational exposure by wage and employment dynamics in the United States is then studied, complemented by investigating industry and geographical penetration rates.
        KW  - labour-saving technology
KW  - natural language processes
KW  - labour markets
KW  - technological unemployment
        ER  -