The role played by technological change in employment trends has long been debated and
investigated, but the evidence has proven to be inconclusive. This paper aims to shed light …

In this report we contribute to the growing debate about how the introduction of technology
affects labour demand. First, we provide some background of the main theoretical …

We study the short-run causal effect of Information and Communication Technology (ICT)
adoption on employment and wage distribution. We exploit a natural experiment generated …

This paper presents new evidence on the evolution of job polarisation in Spain between
1994 and 2014. After showing the U-shaped relationship between employment share …

This paper aims at revisiting the empirical evidence on the recent trends of countries'
integration in global value chains (GVCs) in Europe. It investigates two potential sources of …

Global trade integrates not only markets for products, services, finance and technology, but
also, directly and indirectly, markets for labor. Indeed, rising protectionism and the growing …

This paper assesses the employment impact of offshoring in five European countries
(Germany, Spain, France, Italy and the United Kingdom), distinguishing between different …

The authors analyse change in employment levels and in the task content of occupations,
both within occupations (ie at the intensive margin) and between occupations (ie at the …

This chapter presents and compares different approaches to the measurement of tasks,
discussing their pros and cons and the problems that researchers encounter when testing …

This paper investigates the effect of technological exposure on UK employment polarization
during 1993–2014. The identification strategy exploits variation across local labour markets …