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Robots are leaving the factory floor and heading for your desk - and your job

9 February 2015

Alan Manning, an economist at the London School of Economics, takes issue with the assertion that economic trends observed in the US are caused by technological unemployment. While he agrees US data shows rising productivity and stagnating employment, it isn't the case in Britain. For about a decade UK productivity has been stagnating while employment, if anything, is up. If technology was having a big effect, he argues, it might show up in US data a bit earlier but wouldn't be entirely absent elsewhere.

This article was published in The Guardian on February 9, 2015
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Related publications
'Lovely and lousy jobs: Job polarisation continues to be an important feature of the way that Britains labour market is evolving', Alan Manning, LSE British Politics and Policy blog, January 2014
Lovely and lousy jobs, Alan Manning. Article in CentrePiece Volume 18, Issue 2, Autumn 2013
'Lousy and Lovely Jobs: The Rising Polarization of Work in Britain',Maarten Goos and Alan Manning, Centre for Economic Performance Discussion Paper No. 604, December 2003
Lousy and Lovely Jobs: The Rising Polarization of Work in Britain, Review of Economics and Statistics 89(1): 118-33, February 2007

Related links
Alan Manning webpage
Community Programme webpage
Labour Markets Programme webpage

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