Technological change
How the fourth industrial revolution will change the way we work.
The introduction of new technology to improve productivity has been a feature of working life for centuries, and it has created both winners and losers. With the advent of the fourth industrial revolution - will the nature of work change again?
CEP research on the use of industrial robots in 17 countries shows that using robots can increase productivity. This research also sheds light on how many and which jobs could be replaced, finding that robots reduced the hours worked by low- and medium-skilled workers.
The CEP is now looking into the economic effects of AI, robots and new technology. How does the adoption of new technology affect the performance of firms? What does this mean for wages? How do technological change and globalisation interact to affect employment? And what does this mean for immigration?
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Technological change Publications
Philippe Aghion, Antonin Bergeaud and John Van Reenen
19 April 2023
Per-Anders Edin, Tiernan Evans, Georg Graetz, Sofia Hernnäs and Guy Michaels
1 April 2023
Rui Costa and Yuanhang Yu
27 February 2023
Anthony J. Venables and Frederick van der Ploeg
27 February 2023
Antonin Bergeaud and Cyril Verluise
21 February 2023
Rui Costa and Yuanhang Yu
21 February 2023
Qiang Dai, Robert J.R. Elliott, Gavin D.J. Harper, Oliver Heidrich, Viet Nguyen-Tien and Margaret Slattery
20 February 2023
Ester Faia, Gianmarco I. P. Ottaviano and Saverio Spinella
10 February 2023
Ester Faia, Gianmarco I. P. Ottaviano and Saverio Spinella
23 January 2023
Chiara Criscuolo and Guy Lalanne
17 January 2023
Antonin Bergeaud and Cyril Verluise
23 November 2022
Philippe Aghion, Lena Boneva, Johannes Breckenfelder, Luc Laeven, Conny Olovsson, Alexander Popov and Elena Rancoita
15 November 2022
Simon Commander and Saul Estrin
10 November 2022
Rui Costa and Yuanhang Yu
10 November 2022
Dario Krpan, Grace Lordan and Paris Will
3 November 2022
Ralph De Haas, Ralf Martin, Mirabelle Muûls and Helena Schweiger
1 November 2022
Robert J.R. Elliott, Benjamin Jones and Viet Nguyen-Tien
6 October 2022
Paul A. Anderson, Qiang Dai, Robert J.R. Elliott, Gavin D.J. Harper and Viet Nguyen-Tien
1 September 2022
Sandra McNally, Guglielmo Ventura and Hanna Virtanen
29 July 2022
Attila Lindner, Balazs Murakozy, Balazs Reizer and Ragnhild Schreiner
1 July 2022
Molly Broome, Stefano Cellini, Kathleen Henehan, Charlie McCurdy, Capucine Riom, Anna Valero and Guglielmo Ventura
20 June 2022
Ester Faia, Sebastien Laffitte, Maximilian Mayer and Gianmarco I. P. Ottaviano
13 June 2022
Teresa Almeida, Julia Bladinieres-Justo, Aleesha Bruce, Grace Lordan, Anisah Ramli, Nichaphat Surawattananon, Chanya Trakulmaykee and Jasmine Virhia
26 May 2022
Brendan Curran, Ralf Martin, Sabrina Muller, Viet Nguyen-Tien, Juliana Oliveira-Cunha, Esin Serin, Arjun Shah, Anna Valero and Dennis Verhoeven
23 May 2022
Andrew L. Kun, Raffaella Sadun, Orit Shaer and Thomaz Teodorovicz
29 April 2022
Antonin Bergeaud and Clement Mazet-Sonilhac
14 April 2022
Jonathan Haskel and Stian Westlake
22 March 2022
Pawel Adrjan, Gabriele Ciminelli, Chiara Criscuolo, Peter N. Gal, Alexandre Judes, Michael Koelle, Timo Leidecker, Francesco Losma, Giuseppe Nicoletti, Cyrille Schwellnus and Tara Sinclair
10 February 2022
Juliana Oliveira-Cunha, Capucine Riom and Anna Valero
3 February 2022
Flavio Calvino and Chiara Criscuolo
20 January 2022
Antonin Bergeaud, Jean Benoit Eymeoud, Thomas Garcia and Dorian Henricot
18 January 2022
Olivier Chanel, Alberto Prati and Morgan Raux
16 January 2022
Janice Eberly, Jonathan Haskel and Paul Mizen
13 January 2022
Martin Beraja, Andrew Kao, David Y. Yang and Noam Yuchtman
17 December 2021
Antonin Bergeaud, Clement Malgouyres, Clement Mazet-Sonilhac and Sara Signorelli
13 December 2021
Robert Blackburn and Maria Ventura
24 November 2021
Juliana Oliveira-Cunha, Capucine Riom and Anna Valero
22 November 2021
Robert Blackburn, Stephen Machin and Maria Ventura
18 November 2021
Ari Bronsoler, Joseph Doyle and John Van Reenen
10 November 2021
Juliana Oliveira-Cunha, Capucine Riom and Anna Valero
10 November 2021
Pia Andres, Ralf Martin, Penny Mealy, Esin Serin, Arjun Shah and Anna Valero
22 September 2021
Nicholas Bloom, Tarek Alexander Hassan, Aakash Kalyani, Josh Lerner and Ahmed Tahoun
10 September 2021
Nicholas Bloom, Tarek Hassan, Aakash Kalyani, Josh Lerner and Ahmed Tahoun
10 August 2021
Yuhei Miyauchi, Kentaro Nakajima and Stephen J. Redding
4 August 2021
Jose Maria Barrero, Nicholas Bloom and Steven J. Davis
27 July 2021
Nicholas Bloom, Paul Mizen and Shivani Taneja
15 June 2021
Philippe Aghion and Isabelle Laporte
14 June 2021
Gene M. Grossman, Elhanan Helpman, Ezra Oberfield and Thomas Sampson
2 June 2021
Sabrina T. Howell, Jason Rathje, John Van Reenen and Jun Wong
8 May 2021
Antoine Dechezleprêtre, Paul Drummond, Kenneth T Gilingham, Matthieu Glachant, Michael Grubb, Will McDowall, Cristina Penasco, Alexandra Poncia, David Popp, Sascha Samadi and Sjak Smulders
29 March 2021
Ralph De Haas, Ralf Martin, Mirabelle Muûls and Helena Schweiger
19 March 2021
Carlo Altomonte, Domenico Favoino, Monica Morlacco and Tommaso Sonno
8 January 2021
Anna Valero and John Van Reenen
7 January 2021
Ralf Martin, Sam Unsworth, Anna Valero and Dennis Verhoeven
18 December 2020
Ester Faia, Sebastien Laffitte, Maximilian Mayer and Gianmarco I. P. Ottaviano
29 May 2020
David Autor, David Dorn, Lawrence F. Katz, Christina Patterson and John Van Reenen
1 February 2020
Philippe Aghion, Antonin Bergeaud, Richard Blundell and Rachel Griffith
6 December 2019
Nicholas Bloom, Brian Lucking and John Van Reenen
1 December 2019
Per-Anders Edin, Tiernan Evans, Georg Graetz, Sofia Hernnäs and Guy Michaels
1 November 2019
Dan Andrews, Chiara Criscuolo and Peter N. Gal
14 August 2019
Per-Anders Edin, Tiernan Evans, Georg Graetz, Sofia Hernnäs and Guy Michaels
18 June 2019
John Helliwell, Richard Layard and Jeffrey D. Sachs
10 February 2019
Georg Graetz and Guy Michaels
1 December 2018
Sara Calligaris, Massimo Del Gatto, Fadi Hassan, Gianmarco I. P. Ottaviano and Fabiano Schivardi
1 October 2018
Georg Graetz and Guy Michaels
1 March 2017
Georg Graetz and Guy Michaels
13 January 2017
Georg Graetz and Guy Michaels
30 July 2015
Georg Graetz and Guy Michaels
3 March 2015
Guy Michaels, Ashwini Natraj and John Van Reenen
1 March 2014
Philippe Aghion, John Van Reenen and Luigi Zingales
1 February 2013
Nicholas Bloom, Benn Eifert, Aprajit Mahajan, David McKenzie and John Roberts
1 February 2013
Raphael Calel and Antoine Dechezleprêtre
Revised February 2013
Nicholas Bloom, Raffaella Sadun and John Van Reenen
1 February 2012
Andrea Ariu and Giordano Mion
20 December 2011
Nicholas Bloom, Benn Eifert, Aprajit Mahajan, David McKenzie and John Roberts
January 2011
Josh Lerner and Mark Schankerman
1 December 2010
Giordano Mion and Linke Zhu
December 2010
Tomer Blumkin, Yossi Hadar and Eran Yashiv
February 2009
Stephen Machin and John Van Reenen
1 November 1998