, as a technology platform, can automate tasks previously performed by labor or create new tasks and activities in which … humans can be productively employed. Recent technological change has been biased towards automation, with insufficient focus … tendency is to develop AI in the direction of further automation, but this might mean missing out on the promise of the "right …

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 …

survey (ESJS), jobs are bundled according to their estimated risk of automation. The paper builds on the methodology of … very high risk of automation. The distribution of high automatability across industries and occupations is also found to be …

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 …

This paper examines the extent to which aggregate-level de-routinization can be attributed to firm-level technology … technologies. Our results suggest that an acceleration of technology adoption would be associated with faster de-routinization and …

that were specialized in routine activities differentially adopted information technology, reallocated low skill labor into …

, augmented to account for technology use and organizational design, correcting for unobserved heterogeneity. We find large …

We estimate the effects of technology investments on the demand for skilled workers using longitudinally integrated … unobservable components within each business for each year from 1992 to 1997. We measure technology using variables from the Annual … between advanced technology and skill in a cross-sectional analysis of businesses in both sectors. The more comprehensive …