harmonized cross-country and industry data, where we measure automation as industry-level movements in total factor productivity … (TFP) that are common across countries. We find that automation displaces employment and reduces labor's share of value …

Aggregate productivity growth in the U.S. has slowed down since the 2000s. We quantify the importance of differential … productivity growth across occupations and across industries, and the rise of computers since the 1980s, for the productivity … productivity growth, reducing their contributions toward aggregate productivity growth, resulting in its slowdown. We find that …

also affects the real wage of other workers. Counteracting these forces, automation creates a positive productivity effect …. Low-skill (high-skill) automation corresponds to tasks performed by low-skill (high-skill) labor being taken over by … capital. Automation displaces the type of labor it directly affects, depressing its wage. Through ripple effects, automation …