“Of course, digitalization and automation also impact Germany”, states Uwe Blien from the German Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB). But in his presentation at the 10th Summer Conference of the German Speaking section of ERSA, the European Regional Science Association, in Vienna, Austria, Blien points out that „technological progress threatens routine occupations also in Germany, but the effect is different from what we see in the USA“. While this transformation hits particularly middle-income workers in the USA leading to a polarization in society, the researcher finds little evidence for such a polarization in the German labor market.
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