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Fourth Industrial Revolution
Do new technologies lead to job losses? Here's what history reveals
Research looks at the impact of labour-saving technology on output and employment.
Miguel Morin is a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Cambridge. His research interests include macroeconomics and economic history, with a particular interest on the far-reaching effects of the adoption of technologies such as computers and electricity, and more recently also early childhood education, with a particular interest on reading interventions during early childhood.