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The Potential Employment Implications of the Fourth Industrial Revolution Technologies: The Case of

5 May 2021

1 The Potential Employment Implications of the Fourth Industrial Revolution Technologies The Case of the Manufacturing, Engineering and Related Services Sector impact through the lens of the task-content of occupations. [...] 11 The Potential Employment Implications of the Fourth Industrial Revolution Technologies The Case of the Manufacturing, Engineering and Related Services Sector 3 DATA AND METHODOLOGY This report is focused on estimating the effects of technologies related to the fourth industrial revolution on labour market outcomes in the MER sector at the occupational level. [...] The use of the 2018 data is motivated by the fact that the 2018 data is the most recent in which all four quarters of the QLFS are present in PALMS. [...] The way these occupations cluster within the standard skill-classification of occupations is also of interest: low-skilled occupations (comprising elementary workers) are located 21 The Potential Employment Implications of the Fourth Industrial Revolution Technologies The Case of the Manufacturing, Engineering and Related Services Sector on the production orientated left-hand side of the occupatio. [...] This polarisation of the occupation space allows one to distinguish clearly between a set of production-centric occupations on the left side of the occupation space and a set of non-production occupations on the right side of the space.

Authors

Catharina Latka

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70
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South Africa

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