TY - GEN
T1 - Technological change and its impact on skilled jobs
T2 - 2014 Portland International Center for Management of Engineering and Technology, PICMET 2014
AU - Merritt, Humberto
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2014 PICMET.
PY - 2014/10/10
Y1 - 2014/10/10
N2 - Technological change has always had a strong influence on the economy. In the case of the Information and Communications Technologies (ICT), their incessant penetration has transformed traditional working places, such as the office. Although many white collar activities have survived given the enduring reliance on qualified staff with abundant skills and experience, they now seem at risk due the progressive automation of clerical work. These trends are not exclusive of industrialized nations, though. Then, we pose the following question: to what extent is technological change affecting skilled jobs in developing nations too, and more specifically in Mexico? In attempting to answer this question, we examine the impact of ICTs on six skilled jobs in Mexico City: data entry keyers, photographers, computer systems analysts, messengers, stenographers and lathe operators. We found that traditional occupations have indeed disappeared, whereas specialized manufacturing jobs, such as lathe operators, seem to be still required by the market, although in a lesser extent. We conclude that jobs are no longer defined by traditional skills but by multitasks abilities, especially in ICTs.1
AB - Technological change has always had a strong influence on the economy. In the case of the Information and Communications Technologies (ICT), their incessant penetration has transformed traditional working places, such as the office. Although many white collar activities have survived given the enduring reliance on qualified staff with abundant skills and experience, they now seem at risk due the progressive automation of clerical work. These trends are not exclusive of industrialized nations, though. Then, we pose the following question: to what extent is technological change affecting skilled jobs in developing nations too, and more specifically in Mexico? In attempting to answer this question, we examine the impact of ICTs on six skilled jobs in Mexico City: data entry keyers, photographers, computer systems analysts, messengers, stenographers and lathe operators. We found that traditional occupations have indeed disappeared, whereas specialized manufacturing jobs, such as lathe operators, seem to be still required by the market, although in a lesser extent. We conclude that jobs are no longer defined by traditional skills but by multitasks abilities, especially in ICTs.1
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M3 - Contribución a la conferencia
AN - SCOPUS:84910146241
T3 - PICMET 2014 - Portland International Center for Management of Engineering and Technology, Proceedings: Infrastructure and Service Integration
SP - 2420
EP - 2432
BT - PICMET 2014 - Portland International Center for Management of Engineering and Technology, Proceedings
A2 - Kocaoglu, Dundar F.
A2 - Anderson, Timothy R.
A2 - Daim, Tugrul U.
A2 - Kozanoglu, Dilek Cetindamar
A2 - Niwa, Kiyoshi
A2 - Perman, Gary
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Y2 - 27 July 2014 through 31 July 2014
ER -