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Australians worry more about losing jobs overseas than to robots

  • Written by Nicholas Biddle, Associate Professor, ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences, Australian National University

Not a week goes by without a news story (or a few) about people losing their jobs to robots, or the potential effects of a rapidly changing labour market. We are told repeatedly about how many jobs are going to be lost. Both unskilled and skilled jobs are predicted to disappear.

These risks are no doubt real, if uncertain in their magnitude. But...

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