Investigating the Effects of Automation on Labor Markets

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TABLE OF CONTENTS
BACKGROUND.............................................................................................................................3
AIM..................................................................................................................................................3
LITERATURE REVIEW................................................................................................................3
METHODOLOGY..........................................................................................................................4
CONTRIBUTION TO KNOWLEDGE...........................................................................................4
PERSONAL STATEMENT............................................................................................................4
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................6

Topic: Conducting an investigation on determination of the effected of automation on the
labor markets with all major technological development in the history”
BACKGROUND
In the recent times, technological advancement has grown to immense level. With the
motive to gain competitive edge over rivals business units of all sectors are placing high level of
emphasis on automation. This magnificent growth of the industry have a direct impact on labor
market in terms of both positive and negative. The present research is conducted to identify the
effect of technological automation in the labors market. This proposal presents methods which
will be considered by the scholar for addressing research issue or problem prominently.
AIM
The aim behind conducting present study is to ascertain the effect of automation on the labor
markets with all major technological development in the history.
LITERATURE REVIEW
Accordion to Daron Acemoglu and Pascual Restrepo (2017), robots and other computer-
assisted technologies take over tasks previously performed by labor, there is increasing concern
about the future of jobs and wages. The automation have increased in past 50 years with this the
labors with lesser skilled are not preferred by the companies (Humphries, 2017). This have
directly affected their job security and survival. Jobs are vulnerable of being replaced by
machines but it is clear that developing countries are more susceptible to automation compared
to high-income countries. The impact of advancement in technology is more seen on the labor
market of developing economies as these nations are more inclined towards adoption of
advances machinery and technology for enhancements of their economic perspective and growth
of the country. On the other hand in the views of Daniel B. le Roux1 (2018), the technological
revolution in the industry have an impact on the type of the work performed by the humans. The
invention of increasingly advanced machinery decreases, on one hand, the need for certain forms
of manual labor while, on the other, creating new needs and new types of work. Through
continuous cycles of this process advanced industries have emerged enabling standards of living
to rise across the world (Weber, 2017). This have collided with the growth of inequalities in the
economies in the nations which were previously democratic. Prompting debate over the