The impact of high-technology trade on employment

Idris, Zera Zuryana; Ismail, Normaz Wana; Ibrahim, Saifuzzaman; Hamzah, Hazilawati

doi:10.1080/09638199.2020.1852301

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“…Thus, we cannot think about the alternative of zero manual jobs in the future, but we have to explore the alternative that robots and individuals can work together side by side. These findings are confirmed by Idris et al ( 2021 ) in their research on the effect of high-technology trade on employment. The authors confirmed that there is evidence of a negative relationship between high-tech trade and employment.…”

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The labor market in the digital era: What matters for the Gulf Cooperation Council countries?

2022

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Digital transformation affects all organizations, large and small. Waves of technological change are frequent and accelerating, requiring constant adaptation by companies and their employees. Artificial intelligence, automation, and digital tools are changing the traditional organizational structure and ways of working. After the COVID-19 pandemic, the labor market has to move toward an inclusive digital transformation that braces the business systems. This paper is an attempt to explore the effect of digitalization on employment in Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries and compare them to some selected advanced countries. The methodology focuses on the second-generation unit root tests and the Auto Regressive Distributed Lagged model for the period 2000–2020. The findings show a negative and significant impact of ICT on employment in the industrial and services sectors for GCC countries with a moderate adjustment speed toward the long-run equilibrium. This result is explained by the shortage of skilled workers in GCC countries compared to advanced countries, where the findings show a positive and significant effect of ICT technologies on total employment, especially in the industrial sector. The adjustment speed toward the long run is significantly higher in advanced countries than in GCC countries.

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The labor market in the digital era: What matters for the Gulf Cooperation Council countries?

2022

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“…Among those studies using other/indirect technology measures (n=5), three used investment in high-tech capital or R&D as technology proxies (Breemersch et al, 2019;Flug and Hercowitz, 2000;Idris et al, 2021) 2021) found heterogeneous results depending on the type of the technology considered: R&D-based knowledge investments seem to mitigate the ICT-driven declining trend in the labor share, while innovation-related intangible investments are related to a rising labor share, opposite to the effect found for organization-related investments.…”

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Technology and jobs: A systematic literature review

Hötte¹,

Somers²,

Theodorakopoulos³

2022

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Does technological change destroy or create jobs? New technologies may replace human workers, but can simultaneously create jobs if workers are needed to use these technologies or if new economic activities emerge. Furthermore, technology-driven productivity growth may increase disposable income, stimulating a demand-induced expansion of employment. To synthesize the existing knowledge on this question, we systematically review the empirical literature on the past four decades of technological change and its impact on employment, distinguishing between five broad technology categories (ICT, Robots, Innovation, TFP-style, Other). Overall, we find across studies that the labor-displacing effect of technology appears to be more than offset by compensating mechanisms that create or reinstate labor. This holds for most types of technology, suggesting that previous anxieties over widespread technology-driven unemployment lack an empirical base, at least so far. Nevertheless, low-skill, production, and manufacturing workers have been adversely affected by technological change, and effective up-and reskilling strategies should remain at the forefront of policy making along with targeted social support systems.

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“…Income inequality is one of the greatest factors that is influenced by the export of high technology. Idris, Ismail, Ibrahim, and Hamzah (2021) assessed the trade of high technology from developing countries that clearly impacts income inequality. Results indicated that inappropriate policies of retaining high technology create more unemployment and income inequality.…”

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Do Globalization, Technology Adoption and Economic Development Influence Income Inequality in Developing Asian Nations?

Abbas

Hye

Rehan

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Currently, income inequality has become an international issue that needs to be overcome and also requires the attention of researchers and policymakers. Hence, this study is an attempt to explore the impact of globalization, technology adoption, and economic development on income inequality. For this purpose, 20 years of large-scale panel data over the period from 2001 to 2020 for ten emerging Asian nations (Iran, Jordan, Iraq, Laos, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Indonesia, and the Philippines) is mined from the World Bank database and KOF globalization index. In order to inspect the empirical relationship among the selected variables, the panel data fixed effects model (FEM) along with the robust standard error is employed. The results indicate that globalization, technology adoption, and economic development have a negative linkage with income inequality, which means these factors play a significant role in removing the income inequality in developing countries. This study provides insight for policymakers while developing policies regarding income inequality elimination in the country.

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The impact of high-technology trade on employment

Cited by 12 publications

References 40 publications

The labor market in the digital era: What matters for the Gulf Cooperation Council countries?

The labor market in the digital era: What matters for the Gulf Cooperation Council countries?

Technology and jobs: A systematic literature review

Do Globalization, Technology Adoption and Economic Development Influence Income Inequality in Developing Asian Nations?

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