Software Automation and Teleworkers as Complements and Substitutes

https://cepr.org/voxeu/columns/software-automation-and-teleworkers-complements-and-substitutes
REMOTE WORKING
Issue #390
31 Mar 2024
Richard Baldwin is a labour market economists who is criminally under-the-radar. His twitter and LinkedIn are both worth a follow. Here he is introducing a paper which analyses the relationship between offshoring (he calls this ‘teleworking’) and AI/Automation. Whilst I’m still in the camp that remote —> offshore—> automated, this paper provides evidence that there is less direct substitution that we think. Academic but accessible read.