Automation and Skill Development in the Global Economy
Navn på bevillingshaver
Daisuke Adachi
Titel
Associate Professor
Institution
Aarhus University
Beløb
DKK 6,280,559
År
2025
Bevillingstype
Semper Ardens: Accelerate
Hvad?
This project investigates how globalization and automation reshape jobs, wages, and skills across countries. By combining theory and unique data from Denmark and international sources, it will clarify how technology and trade shocks affect workers’ career paths and productivity. The findings will reveal hidden mechanisms behind uneven adjustment to automation.
Hvorfor?
Understanding who gains and who loses from automation and global production is crucial for designing fair and effective policies. The project identifies how career development and international institutions can help workers adapt, ensuring that technological progress benefits society broadly. These insights will guide governments in fostering resilience and inclusive growth.
Hvordan?
Our new models integrate automation into trade theory and dynamic skill development, capturing both cross-country differences in automation and rapid adoption of automation due to paradigm changes. Using Danish administrative data and global data on trade and industrial robots, a postdoc and PhD will test predictions with structural estimation, delivering robust insights for policy and research.