Machines and the Future of Work
Question: How are machines impacting human jobs, organizations and economies?
Robotics and Artificial Intelligence technologies are expected to fundamentally transform the nature of work, to potentially eliminate many jobs, and to create entirely new jobs. While these questions are typically studied by labor economists, this theme complements the traditional approach using methods from data science, complex systems, and network science to shed new light on these processes.
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Moro, E., Frank, M. R., Pentland, A., Rutherford, A., Cebrian, M., & Rahwan, I. (2021). Universal resilience patterns in labor markets.Nature Communications, 12, Article 1972. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-22086-3
Chen, H. C., Li, X., Frank, M., Qin, X., Xu, W., Cebrian, M., & Rahwan, I. (2021). Automation impacts on China’s polarized job market.Journal of Computational Social Science. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1007/s42001-021-00134-8
Xu, W., Qin, X., Li, X., Chen, H., Frank, M., Rutherford, A., Reeson, A., & Rahwan, I. (2021). Developing China's workforce skill taxonomy reveals extent of labor market polarization. Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, 8, Article 187. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-021-00862-2
Hong, I., Frank, M. R., Rahwan, I., Jung, W.-S., & Youn, H. (2020). The universal pathway to innovative urban economies. Science Advances, 6(34), Article eaba4934. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.aba4934
Frank, M. R., Autor, D., Bessen, J. E., Brynjolfsson, E., Cebrian, M., Deming, D. J., Feldman, M., Groh, M., Lobo, J., Moro, E., Wang, D., Youn, H., & Rahwan, I. (2019). Toward understanding the impact of artificial intelligence on labor. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 116(14), 6531–6539. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1900949116
Alabdulkareem, A., Frank, M. R., Sun, L., AlShebli, B., Hidalgo, C., & Rahwan, I. (2018). Unpacking the polarization of workplace skills. Science advances, 4(7), Article eaao6030. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.aao6030
Frank M. R., Sun L., Cebrian M., Youn H. & Rahwan I. (2018). Small cities face greater impact from automation. Journal of the Royal Society Interface, 15(139), Article 20170946. http://doi.org/10.1098/rsif.2017.0946