This paper analyzes the interplay between the allocation of authority within firms and workers' exposure to automation … are likely to emerge in our framework: in one, workplace governance is based on ER and job designs have low automation … risk; in the other, ER is absent and workers are involved in automation-prone production tasks. Using data from a large …

ideology scores from the Manifesto Project. We measure exposure to automation both at the regional level, based on the ex …

developments, some argue that large shares of jobs are "at risk of automation", spurring public fears of massive job-losses and …. First, the chapter discusses estimates of automation potentials, showing that many estimates are severely upward biased …

We present a framework for understanding the effects of automation and other types of technological changes on labor … allocation of tasks to capital and labor - the task content of production. Automation, which enables capital to replace labor in … a result, automation always reduces the labor share in value added and may reduce labor demand even as it raises …

contribution of automation to the task content and skills complexity of the jobs of incumbent workers. Despite the recent focus on … the polarising impact of automation and associated reskilling needs of lower-skilled individuals, our evidence also draws …

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 …

We show, theoretically and empirically, that the effects of technological change associated with automation and … is that better matches enjoy a comparative advantage in exploiting automation and a comparative disadvantage in … exploiting offshoring. It implies that automation (offshoring) may reduce (raise) employment by lengthening (shortening …

investment. This allows us to quantify the role of advancement in automation technology in accounting for these labor market …