Labour and technology at the time of COVID-19: can artificial intelligence mitigate the need for proximity?

Social distancing has become worldwide the key public policy to be implemented during the [Coronavirus Disease 2019] COVID-19 epidemic and reducing the degree of proximity among workers turned out to be an important dimension. An emerging literature looks at the role of automation in supporting the work of humans but the potential of Artificial Intelligence (AI) to influence the need for physical proximity on the workplace has been left largely unexplored. By using a unique and innovative dataset that combines data on advancements of AI at the occupational level with information on the require... Show more

Authors: Carbonero, Francesco; Scicchitano, Sergio

Published: Essen, Germany, Global Labor Organization (GLO), 2021

Resource type: Report, paper or authored book

Physical description: 25 p.

Access item: https://ideas.repec.org/p/zbw/glodps/765.html

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