automation further compound the challenge of job creation, which is already quite sizable in historical perspective. Failure to …

conceptualizing and documenting the race between technology and education, it is restrictive in a number of crucial respects. First … 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 …

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 …

valued? We provide a general theory of optimal technology regulation in a second best world, with rich heterogeneity across … on robots and trade, the magnitude of these taxes may decrease as the process of automation and globalization deepens and …

further predicts that the induced adoption of automation technology should be more pronounced in industries that rely more on …We argue theoretically and document empirically that aging leads to greater (industrial) automation, and in particular … older to middle-aged workers--is associated with greater adoption of robots and other automation technologies across …

The changes in technology that took place in the US during the last three decades, mainly due to the introduction of … computerization and automation, have been characterized as "routine-substituting." They have reduced the demand for routine tasks, but …

of the advanced technology and providing universal basic income to share gains from automation. The former policy can … evaluate the global consequences of automation. Automation, modeled as capital- and high-skill biased technological change, is … a range of foundational models of automation. In our baseline scenario, automation has a moderate effect on regional …

by the relative wage declines of worker groups specialized in routine tasks in industries experiencing rapid automation … capital. Automation technologies expand the set of tasks performed by capital, displacing certain worker groups from … between 1980 and 2016. Our task displacement variable captures the effects of automation technologies (and to a lesser degree …