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The countries where jobs were least vulnerable to automation were Sweden, with 46.69% of jobs vulnerable, the UK at 47.17%, the Netherlands at 49.50%, and France and Denmark, both at 49.54%. The countries where jobs were found to be most vulnerable were Romania at 61.93%, Portugal at 58.94%, Croatia at 57.9%, and Bulgaria at 56.56%.
Jobs Going to the Robots. Workers have long feared losing jobs to newcomers, but the threat has changed in the digital age as technology poses a new form of competition.
For instance, the McKinsey study showed that jobs for artists, designers, entertainers and media will increase by 8% in the U.S. Demand for technology professionals will grow by 34% by 2030 ...
The total of the job losses in these two industries from January 2008 to October 2012 was 3.7 million. For scale, the U.S. overall employment decline from January 2008 to October 2012 was a net 4.3 million, with 8.8 million jobs lost from 1/08 to 2/10 and 4.5 million jobs added back thereafter. [154]
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A robot tax is a legislative strategy to disincentivize the replacement of workers by machines and bolster the social safety net for those who are displaced. While the automation of manual labour has been contemplated since before the Industrial Revolution, the issue has received increased discussion in the 21st century due to newer developments such as machine learning.
The following month we created no new net jobs at all. And just yesterday, In July 2011, the unemployment rate was 9.1%, and we were unable to create enough jobs to keep up with our population growth.
Job losses caused by the Great Recession refers to jobs that have been lost worldwide within people since the start of the Great Recession. In the US, job losses have been going on since December 2007, and it accelerated drastically starting in September 2008 following the bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers . [ 1 ]