People versus machines in the UK: minimum wages, labor reallocation and automatable jobs

Lordan, Grace (2019) People versus machines in the UK: minimum wages, labor reallocation and automatable jobs. PLOS ONE. ISSN 1932-6203

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Abstract

This study follows the Lordan and Neumark (2018)1 analysis for the US, and examines whether minimum wage increases affect employment opportunities in automatable jobs in the UK for low-skilled low-wage workers. Overall, I find that increasing the minimum wage decreases the share of automatable employment held by low-skilled low-wage workers, and increases the likelihood that workers in automatable jobs become dis-employed. On aggregate the effect size is modest, but I also provide evidence that these effects are larger in more recent years. The study also highlights significant heterogeneity by industry and demographic group, including more substantive adverse effects for older low-skilled workers in manufacturing, as well as effects at the intensive margin.

Item Type:	Article
Official URL:	https://journals.plos.org/plosone/
Additional Information:	© 2020 The Author(s)
Divisions:	Psychological and Behavioural Science
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > HC Economic History and Conditions H Social Sciences > HN Social history and conditions. Social problems. Social reform
Date Deposited:	06 Nov 2019 11:03
Last Modified:	18 Oct 2024 07:51
URI:	http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/102393

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