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 …

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. …

Industrial Revolution? We argue that Britain possessed an important but underappreciated innovation advantage: British inventors … worked in technologies that were more central within the innovation network. We offer a new approach for measuring the … innovation network using patent data from Britain and France in the late-18th and early-19th century. We show that the network …

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. …

Prettner (2019) studies the implications of automation for economic growth and the labor share in a variant of the … Solow-Swan model. The aggregate production function allows for two types of capital, traditional and automation capital …. Traditional capital and labor are imperfect substitutes whereas automation capital and labor are perfect substitutes. In this …

Since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution, technological change has led to the automation of existing tasks and … with productivity growth. I provide evidence suggesting, however, that in recent decades automation has outpaced the …

processes? The present paper addresses this question in a new macroeconomic model of automation where competitive firms perform … and substitute for labor in the performance of tasks. Automation is labor-augmenting in the reduced-form aggregate … though the aggregate production function is Cobb-Douglas. Population aging due to a higher longevity reduces automation in …

This paper examines the labor market implications of investment in automation over the life cycle of ICT and robot … these automation technologies and identify the phases of acceleration and deceleration in investment. We then examine how … exposure to these automation technologies affects employment and wages across these different phases of their life cycle. We …

change or globalization, but also by the dynamics of factor taxation, automation capital (robots), and population growth … shares and in automation capital. Second, we analyse and calibrate a neoclassical growth model extended to include factor … taxation, automation capital, and capital adjustment costs. Labor and automation capital are perfect substitutes whereas labor …