Study finds stronger links between automation and inequality

(Massachusetts Institute of Technology) A new study co-authored by an MIT economist suggests automation has a bigger impact on the labor market and income inequality than previous research would indicate -- and identifies the year 1987 as a key inflection point in this process, the moment when jobs lost to automation stopped being replaced by an equal number of similar workplace opportunities.
Source: EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science - Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news