Man vs. Machine

Historically, technological innovations have substituted human labor for decades and if the revolutionary technological developments continue, substitution may happen at an increasing pace. This increasing pace might place high demands on society to quickly adapt if high levels of technological unemployment are to be avoided. This paper examines how the computerization of society may affect the labor market in Sweden. Our research question is: - How susceptible is the Swedish labor market for computerization? The method used to answer this question is based on a method from an American report that conducted a similar survey on the U.S. labor market. The method is based on the job description for each profession and the bottlenecks to computerization. Given its tasks and requirements each profession is given a certain probability of computerization. Our results suggests that 36 percent of Swedish jobs has a high probability to be computerized within one to two decades. Most are in professions such as manufacturing, transport, forestry and hotel- and foodservices. Those professions that are least likely to be computerized are within industries such as nursing and education.