Impact of Technology on Macro-Level Employment and the Workforce: What are the Implications for Job Creation and Job Destruction in Ghana?

IF 2.8 2区社会学 Q1 SOCIAL SCIENCES, INTERDISCIPLINARY

Social Indicators Research Pub Date : 2023-05-25 DOI:10.1007/s11205-023-03109-6

Richard Kofi Asravor, Frank Gyimah Sackey

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Technology whilst creating jobs has destroyed many jobs. The destructive power of technology has led many workers in developing countries, especially Ghana to fight against its introduction. We investigate the effect of technological change on job creation and destruction in Ghana using longitudinal data from the World Development Indicator covering 1990 to 2018. By running the ARDL model, the summative technology-related job destruction is higher in the short run whilst job creation is higher in the long run. Thus, technology has a compensation effect on job destruction and job creation, due to its labour-saving nature. The short and long-run job destruction is higher with increasing importations, interest rate, and minimum wages, however, economic growth, FDI, and exportation increase job creation. Since technology results in higher job destruction, it is important to equip workforce with the technological knowledge before the introduction of new technology.

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技术对宏观层面就业和劳动力的影响:加纳就业创造和就业破坏的含义是什么?

技术在创造就业机会的同时也摧毁了许多就业机会。技术的破坏力导致发展中国家的许多工人，特别是加纳工人反对引进技术。我们使用1990年至2018年世界发展指标的纵向数据调查了技术变革对加纳就业创造和破坏的影响。通过运行ARDL模型，与技术相关的总工作破坏在短期内更高，而就业创造在长期内更高。因此，由于技术节省劳动力的性质，它对就业的破坏和就业的创造具有补偿作用。从短期和长期来看，进口、利率和最低工资的增加对就业的破坏更大，但经济增长、外国直接投资和出口会增加就业。由于技术导致更高的工作破坏，在引入新技术之前让劳动力掌握技术知识是很重要的。

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Social Indicators Research Multiple-

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6.30

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6.50%

发文量

174

期刊介绍： Since its foundation in 1974, Social Indicators Research has become the leading journal on problems related to the measurement of all aspects of the quality of life. The journal continues to publish results of research on all aspects of the quality of life and includes studies that reflect developments in the field. It devotes special attention to studies on such topics as sustainability of quality of life, sustainable development, and the relationship between quality of life and sustainability. The topics represented in the journal cover and involve a variety of segmentations, such as social groups, spatial and temporal coordinates, population composition, and life domains. The journal presents empirical, philosophical and methodological studies that cover the entire spectrum of society and are devoted to giving evidences through indicators. It considers indicators in their different typologies, and gives special attention to indicators that are able to meet the need of understanding social realities and phenomena that are increasingly more complex, interrelated, interacted and dynamical. In addition, it presents studies aimed at defining new approaches in constructing indicators.