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 …

We provide an argument for long-term automation and decline in the labor income share, driven by capital accumulation … rescaled in the same way. Then ongoing capital accumulation gives rise to progressive automation, and the share of labor income …

changes in particular, automation that displaces workers from tasks they used to perform, and the creation of new tasks that … that automation: (i) powerfully impacts inequality; (ii) can reduce real wages; and (iii) can generate realistic changes in …-level estimates of displacement driven by automation and reinstatement due to new tasks, we show that displacement is associated with …

expand their overall employment as well. However, this expansion comes at the expense of their competitors (as automation …

We present a framework for understanding the effects of automation and other types of technological changes on labor … allocation of tasks to capital and labor--the task content of production. Automation, which enables capital to replace labor in … a result, automation always reduces the labor share in value added and may reduce labor demand even as it raises …