The risks of automation and relocation of self-employed workers
Abstract
In this article, we estimate the risks of automation and offshorability for selfemployed
workers in Spain, for the period 2011-2018. The starting point is a previous result
showing that these risks are much lower for self-employed people than for wage earners. Our
analysis shows that these differences seems unrelated to different characteristics of selfemployed
people respect to employees in the case of the automation risks, while differences in
characteristics may play some role for the offshorability risk. The results suggest moving
towards new methodologies to estimate these risks, because of the possibility that the tasks of
the same occupation differ for self-employed workers respect to wage earners.
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