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advantage in the most complex tasks relative to capital, and because the wages of the least skilled workers are sufficiently low … relative to their productivity and the effective cost of capital in low-complexity tasks. Minimum wages and other sources of … higher wages at the bottom make interior automation less likely. Starting with interior automation, a reduction in the cost …
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We present a framework for understanding the effects of automation and other types of technological changes on labor demand, and use it to interpret changes in US employment over the recent past. At the center of our framework is the allocation of tasks to capital and labor - the task content of...
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Many technologies used by the LDCs are developed in the OECD economies, and as such are designed to make optimal use of the skills of these richer countries' workforces. Due to differences in the supply of skills, some of the tasks performed by skilled workers in the OECD economies will be...
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Many technologies used by the LDCs are developed in the OECD economies, and as such are designed to make optimal use of the skills of these richer countries' workforces. Due to differences in the supply of skills, some of the tasks performed by skilled workers in the OECD economies will be...
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