Economic Transformation and the Future of Work in Latin America and the Caribbean

• Autore: Beylis Guillermo
• Pubblicazione: Washington, D. C. : , : World Bank Publications, , 2020; ©2020
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (111 pages)
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Altri autori: Fattal-JaefRoberto SinhaRishabh MorrisMichael SebastianAshwini Rekha
• Nota di contenuto: Front Cover -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- About the Authors -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Analyzing structural transformation -- Implications for economic policy -- Notes -- References -- 1 What is structural transformation? -- What drives structural transformation? -- Conclusions -- Notes -- References -- 2 Productivity in the LAC region: A sectoral view -- Productivity in agriculture -- Productivity in industry and services -- Taking stock: The scope for raising allocative efficiency and the expected pace of structural change -- Conclusions and policy implications -- Notes -- References -- 3 Economic transformation, skills, and the future of work -- The labor market is already changing -- From production to services -- From skill-biased technological change to routine-biased technological change -- Labor market polarization in the developing world: Is it coming? -- Labor market polarization in the developing world: The evidence -- The changing demand for skills in the LAC region -- Conclusions -- Looking into the future: Automation, tasks, and skills -- Looking into the future: Digital platforms and the nature of work -- Conclusions and policy implications -- Notes -- References -- 4 Conclusions -- Structural transformation: Past and future -- Looking forward -- References -- Boxes -- Box 1.1 Measuring structural transformation -- Box 2.1 Does technological change benefit small and large farms equally? Evidence from Mexico -- Box 3.1 What are workers doing? -- Box 3.2 When automation creates jobs -- Figures -- Figure 1.1 Structural transformation by sector, selected LAC countries and rest of world -- Figure 1.2 Patterns of industrialization across LAC and high-income countries -- Figure 1.3 Value-added and employment shares by sector: Selected LAC countries, 1950-2010. ; Figure 1.4 Absolute total level of employment by sector: Selected LAC countries, 1950-2010 -- Figure 1.5 Premature deindustrialization: LAC region (average), 1950-2010 -- Figure 1.6 Relative prices and real consumption per capita: LAC region (average), 1950-2010 -- Figure 1.7 Labor allocation in manufacturing: Selected LAC countries, 1950-2010 -- Figure 2.1 Output per worker by sector in LAC region relative to that of United States: Selected countries, 2010 -- Figure 2.2 Agricultural output and TFP growth: LAC region, 1981-2014 -- Figure 2.3 Correlation between output growth and TFP growth: LAC countries, 2001-14 -- Figure 2.4 Growth decomposition: Latin America by region and United States, 2005-14 -- Figure 2.5 Relationship between value added and employment in agriculture: Selected LAC countries, 2017 -- Figure 2.6 Sources of agricultural productivity growth -- Figure 2.7 Histogram of metatechnical efficiency, Peru, by region -- Figure 2.8 Effectiveness of growth in different sectors at reducing poverty -- Figure 2.9 Labor productivity growth in industrial and services sectors: Latin America and United States, 1950-2010 -- Figure 2.10 Labor productivity in services sector relative to industrial sector: Latin America and United States, 1950-2010 -- Figure 2.11 Services Trade Restrictions Index, selected LAC countries -- Figure 2.12 Logistics Performance Index and its components: 16 LAC countries, relative to best performer -- Figure 3.1 Development of goods and service occupations, LAC and rest of world -- Figure 3.2 Evolution of task content of jobs (mean change): 11 LAC countries, 2000-2014 -- Figure 3.3 Evolution of task content of jobs in industrial sector: 11 LAC countries, 2000-2014 -- Figure 3.4 Decomposition of task content in industrial sector: 11 LAC countries, 2000-2014. ; Figure 3.5 Evolution of task content of jobs in services sector: 11 LAC countries, 2000-2014 -- Figure 3.6 Distribution of automatability across methodologies, Chile -- Figure 3.7 Distribution of automatability across methodologies, Colombia -- Figure 3.8 Distribution of automatability across methodologies, Bolivia -- Figure 3.9 Risk of automation by LAC country, based on four methodologies -- Figure 3.10 Automation risk by selected characteristics, LAC region -- Tables -- Table 2.1 Misallocation in manufacturing, selected developing and developed countries -- Table 3.1 Reallocation of occupations within sectors over development process.
• Titolo autorizzato: Economic Transformation and the Future of Work in Latin America and the Caribbean
• ISBN: 1-4648-1460-0
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910511626303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Latin America and Caribbean Studies