automation in the textile industry. Despite cotton textiles becoming one of the largest sectors in the British economy, real … wages for cotton weavers did not rise for decades. As E.P. Thompson emphasized, automation forced workers into unhealthy … factories with close surveillance and little autonomy. Automation can increase wages, but only when accompanied by new tasks …

This paper studies the effects of automation in economies with labor market distortions that generate worker rents …--wages above opportunity cost--in some jobs. We show that automation targets high-rent tasks, dissipating rents and amplifying wage … losses from automation. It also reduces within-group wage dispersion for exposed groups. Automation-driven rent dissipation …

automation, health care, and energy, and correcting these distortions could have sizable welfare benefits …

We develop an assignment model of automation. Each of a continuum of tasks of variable complexity is assigned to either … capital or one of a continuum of labor skills. We characterize conditions for interior automation, whereby tasks of … intermediate complexity are assigned to capital. Interior automation arises when the most skilled workers have a comparative …

We examine the differential effects of automation on the labor market and educational outcomes of women relative to men … over the past four decades. Although women were disproportionately employed in occupations with a high risk of automation … link by exploiting variation in local labor market exposure to automation attributable to historical differences in local …

This article reviews the literature on automation and its impact on labor markets, wages, factor shares, and … market trends and the effects of automation technologies. The task model clarifies that automation technologies operate by … task models and the displacement effects of automation. I conclude by discussing shortcomings of the existing literature …

factory automation. We build a novel measure of exposure to computer numerical control (CNC) based on initial variation in …

central role of automation and new tasks in recent labor market trends. We also explain how general equilibrium effects …

career implications of automation and robotization using a novel data set of resumes from approximately 16 million … mobility mitigate the negative effects of automation on career values. We also show that the changes in career values are … candidate, as proxied by the vote share of Trump in 2016. We also find further evidence that automation affected both the demand …