Automation, Digitalization, and Changes in Occupational Structures in the Automobile Industry in Germany, the United States, and Japan. A Brief History from the Early 1990s Until 2018

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2020
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Krzywdzinski, Martin
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Weizenbaum Institute
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In the current public discussion, it is considered certain that we are living in a time of rapidly advancing automation, which is driven in particular by the use of robots. Accordingly, many academic publications use robot density as the central indicator of automation. The present study challenges this perspective. It examines two central questions: First, what approaches to automation and digitalization have been pursued in the automotive industry in Germany, Japan and the USA? Second, how have employment and its occupational composition in the automotive industry developed in the three countries? The first part of the study focuses on the development of automation and digitalization approaches in the automotive industry from the early 1990s until today. It combines a qualitative analysis of press articles and a quantitative evaluation of the development of the stock of industrial robots from 1993 to 2018 based on the statistics of the International Federation of Robotics. The second part of the study focuses on the change in employment structures using occupational statistics from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (USA), the Federal Employment Agency (Germany) and the Statistics Bureau of Japan. The study questions the perception of an automation-related threat to employment and especially to production employment. At the same time, it discusses developments in Germany, Japan and the USA in comparison and highlights differences in automation and digitalization approaches as well as different paths of change in employment structures.

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Sociology & anthropology \ Economics \ Sociology of Work, Industrial Sociology, Industrial Relations \ Labor Market Research \ official statistics \ quantitative method \ Federal Republic of Germany \ digitalization \ historical development \ employment \ robot \ employment research \ United States of America \ technical literature \ automation \ structure \ qualitative method \ employment trend \ periodical \ portal \ Japan \ automobile industry \ Wirtschaft \ Soziologie, Anthropologie \ Automobile Industry \ Automation \ Digitalization \ Occupation \ Germany \ United States \ Japan \ Industrie- und Betriebssoziologie, Arbeitssoziologie, industrielle Beziehungen \ Arbeitsmarktforschung \ Bundesrepublik Deutschland \ quantitative Methode \ historische Entwicklung \ Japan \ Roboter \ Struktur \ Zeitschrift \ Kraftfahrzeugindustrie \ Digitalisierung \ Beschäftigungsentwicklung \ amtliche Statistik \ Fachliteratur \ USA \ Automatisierung \ qualitative Methode \ Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung \ Beschäftigung \ Portal
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Krzywdzinski, M. (2020). Automation, Digitalization, and Changes in Occupational Structures in the Automobile Industry in Germany, the United States, and Japan. A Brief History from the Early 1990s Until 2018 (Weizenbaum Series 10). https://doi.org/10.34669/WI.WS/10