Job Opening

Opening the Frey/Osborne Black Box: Which Tasks of a Job are Susceptible to Computerization?

In their seminal paper, Frey and Osborne quantified the automation of jobs, by assigning each job in the O*NET database a probability to be automated. In this paper, we refine their results in the following way: Every O*NET job consists of a set of tasks, and these tasks can be related. We use a linear program to assign probabilities to tasks, such that related tasks have a similar probability ...

Foreign Direct Investment and Dissemination of Job Opening Information in China

[Opening].

a. Witness Professor Reyntjens (PW77) asked permission to address the Chamber. First, he advised the Chamber that he had made an error in an answer he had given yesterday and offered further explanations. Second, he advised the Chamber that he had been given documents yesterday by Counsel for Bagosora (Mr. Constant), some of which were stamped “confidential” and which he recognized as being doc...

Opening keynote

TBA. Speaker: Kenneth D. Lukowiak, Hotchkiss Brain Institute, University of Calgary, Canada Predator detection initiates a fear response that alters memory formation in Lymnaea We study the shortand long-term effects of fear behaviours in our model organism, the pond snail Lymnaea stagnalis. Crayfish, a natural predator of the snail release kairomones in the water in which they are housed (i.e....

Job Loss and Job Change

All three papers deal with important policy issues. Ruhm, whose analysis ranges the most widely, goes furthest in recommending policy activism. Podgursky and Swaim (P&S) are somewhat more re strained, but it is clear that they too favor special assistance for displaced workers. In our own paper we see advantage in workers being given notification of their impending redundancy in the specific co...