Transformations: Through 11 chapters, the book analyzes in particular the effects of automation on employment, the characteristics of the Moroccan labor market and the evolution of professions. The authors finally highlight the lack of studies specifically devoted to Morocco and plead for analyzes adapted to national realities in order to better anticipate future transformations of the labor market.
Policy Center for the New South (PCNS) has just published a new book entitled “Robotization, AI and Employment: Ongoing Transformation and Future Challenges for the Labor Market”. “The world of work is engaged in an unprecedented process of change. The fourth industrial revolution, driven by artificial intelligence (AI) and robotization, was the beginning of a new era where economic and social benchmarks are being redefined at an unprecedented speed. These technologies arouse legitimate enthusiasm and offer promising prospects, but require increased vigilance in the face of the uncertainties that surround them,” believe the authors of this work.
And added: “Although, like many developing economies, Morocco does not yet experience the same levels of automation as industrialized countries or certain large emerging countries, it is clearly already engaged in this global transformation. The speed with which technological innovations spread, combined with the country’s growing openness to international markets and global value chains, is leading to increasingly perceptible changes in the structure of employment, while generating a gradual recomposition of the map of required qualifications.
This book of more than 174 pages covers in 11 chapters different aspects such as “What research tells us about the effects of automation on employment”, “Panorama of the labor market in Morocco: main characteristics and underlying trends”, or even “Can we talk about (de-)routinization of the employment structure in Morocco?”. For the authors of this document, the Moroccan trajectory, marked by automation which is still modest but constantly accelerating, underlines the need for specific analyzes which take into account the characteristics specific to the country.
“However, most of the in-depth studies available focus on advanced countries or, to a lesser extent, on certain large emerging economies. Developing countries, including Morocco, often remain diluted in regional comparisons or approached through work on larger samples, favoring a transversal perspective rather than a contextualized analysis, which does not make it possible to fully grasp their own realities,” they indicate.
