perceived by their workers and suggest that technological innovation is perceived by active workers as a signal of firms' health …

supply on automation innovation by exploiting an immigrant placement policy in Germany during the 1990s and 2000s. Difference …-in-differences estimates indicate that one additional worker per 1,000 manual and unskilled workers reduces automation innovation by 0 …-skilled workers. Labor market tightness and external demand are plausible mechanisms for the labor-innovation nexus. …

Debates about the future of work frequently reference past instances of transformative innovation to preface analysis … of how automation and artificial intelligence could reshape society and the economy. However, technological shifts in … overview of the current debates around the potential effects of impending labor-replacing innovation. We then summarize …

We analyze the effects of R&D-driven automation on economic growth, education, and inequality when high-skilled workers … are complements to machines and low-skilled workers are substitutes for machines. The model predicts that innovation … and that they may actually reduce education. Finally, we extend the model by fair wage concerns and show how automation …

What drives investment in automation technologies? This paper documents a positive relationship between labor … substantial share of cross-country variation in automation. The relationship between institutions and robots is stronger in sunk … invest in automation is to thwart rent appropriation by labor. As a consequence, policies aimed at supporting workers …

role of automation in supporting the work of humans but the potential of Artificial Intelligence (AI) to influence the need …

between robot imports and employment, exogenous changes in automation lead to job losses. We also find that robot imports … result suggests that productivity gains from automation may not be entirely passed on to consumers in the form of lower …

a sample of advanced economies. Institutions explain a substantial proportion of cross-country variation in automation … vulnerable to holdup. This suggests that automation is used by producers as a tool to thwart rent appropriation by labor. …