well as traditional and automation capital (e.g. robots). Robots can substitute for routine labor. We show that both … rise. Although expected advances in automation technologies are able to mitigate or even circumvent output losses in the …

This study quantifies the relationship between workplace digitalization, i.e., the increasing use of frontier … individual-level use of technologies between 2011 and 2019, we find that digitalization induces similar shifts into more complex …

developments, some argue that large shares of jobs are "at risk of automation", spurring public fears of massive job-losses and … technological unemployment. This chapter discusses how new digital technologies might affect the labor market in the near future …. First, the chapter discusses estimates of automation potentials, showing that many estimates are severely upward biased …

We analyze the long-run growth effects of automation in the canonical overlapping generations framework. While … automation implies constant returns to capital within this model class (even in the absence of technological progress), we show … that it does not have the potential to lead to positive long-growth. The reason is that automation suppresses wages, which …

months of the pandemic when a strict lockdown was in place. Differences in unemployment rates across local labour markets …

We examine the impact of labor market power on firms' adoption of automation technologies. We develop a model that … incorporates labor market power into the task-based theory of automation. We show that, due to higher marginal cost of labor … employment effects of automation. Using data from US commuting zones, our results show that commuting zones that are more exposed …