Danzer, Alexander M.; Feuerbaum, Carsten; Gäßler, Fabian - 2020
While economic theory suggests substitutability between labor and capital, little evidence exists regarding the causal … effect of labor supply on inventing labor-saving technologies. We analyze the impact of exogenous changes in regional labor … supply on automation innovation by exploiting an immigrant placement policy in Germany during the 1990s and 2000s. Difference …