Displaced or Depressed? Working in Automatable Jobs and Mental Health
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Automation may destroy jobs and change the labor demand structure, thereby potentially impacting workers' mental health. Implementing propensity score matching on French individual survey data, we find that working in an automatable job is associated with a 3 pp increase in the probability of suffering from mental disorders. Fear of automation through fear of job loss, expectation of a required change in skills, and fear of unwanted job mobility seem to be relevant channels to explain the findings.Description
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38 Economics, 3801 Applied Economics, 3505 Human Resources and Industrial Relations, 35 Commerce, Management, Tourism and Services, Behavioral and Social Science, Mental Health, Mental health, 3 Good Health and Well Being, 1402 Applied Economics, 1503 Business and Management, 1801 Law, Industrial Relations, 3505 Human resources and industrial relations, 3801 Applied economics
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Industrial Relations, ISSN: 0019-8676 (Print); 1468-232X (Online), Wiley. doi: 10.1111/irel.12356
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