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 …

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 …

were obstacles: the manual switchboard was the fulcrum of a complex system which had developed around it, and automation … profitable for AT&T in larger markets--hence diffusion expanded as costs declined and service areas grew. We show that automation … supported AT&T's continued growth, generating a positive feedback loop between scale and automation that reinforced AT&T's high …

innovation can be systematically distorted. This paper builds a simple model of endogenous technology, which generalizes existing … comparative static results and characterizes potential distortions in the direction of innovation. I show that empirical findings … automation, health care, and energy, and correcting these distortions could have sizable welfare benefits …

explain them. We then describe a theoretical framework of endogenous markups, innovation, and competition that can potentially …

may even reduce welfare. The reason is that it crowds out proprietary innovation which on net may reduce total innovation … in the long run. These effects would be reinforced if philanthropical innovation diverted people from other productive …

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 …