In recent years, there has been an escalation of concern revolving around the effect that automation will have on the … future of work. This anxiety has fueled the public and academic debate, fearing that soon this technology will displace jobs … at a large scale. Numerous studies have begun to investigate automation's impact on labor markets, although all have …

This study conducts a meta-analysis to assess the effects of robotization on employment and wages, compiling data from … 33 studies with 644 estimates on employment and a subset of 19 studies with 195 estimates on wages. We identify a … publication bias towards negative outcomes, especially concerning wages. After correcting for this bias, the actual impact appears …

novel features it is shown that (i) AI automation can decrease the share of labor income no matter the size of the … demand and slow down GDP growth, even in the face of the positive technology shock that AI entails. If the elasticity of … countries tend to experience, despite much AI hype, the simultaneous existence of rather high employment with stagnating wages …

it leads also to increasing wages for high-skilled workers, automation-induced reshoring is associated with an increasing …We propose a theoretical framework to analyze the offshoring and reshoring decisions of firms in the age of automation …. Our theory suggests that increasing productivity in automation leads to a relocation of previously offshored production …