We argue theoretically and document empirically that aging leads to greater (industrial) automation, and in particular … older to middle-aged workers—is associated with greater adoption of robots and other automation technologies across … development of automation technologies in countries undergoing greater demographic change. Our directed technological change model …

We summarize a framework for the study of the implications of automation and AI on the demand for labor, wages, and … employment. Our task-based framework emphasizes the displacement effect that automation creates as machines and AI replace labor … counteracted by a productivity effect, resulting from the cost savings generated by automation, which increase the demand for labor …

be replaced by a thorough schooling in the theory of the motorcar; the knowledge I have of my own body differs altogether …

Using a quantitative model that features technical progress in automation and endogenous skill choice, we show that …, given the current U.S. tax system, a sustained fall in automation costs can lead to a massive rise in income inequality. We …

control (CNC), an important type of flexible automation which can significantly increase productivity, product variety and …

This paper points out that modeling automation as factor-augmenting technological change has several unappealing … reduce the equilibrium wage (for realistic parameter values). This approach to automation also enables a discussion of … capital, the deepening of automation (whereby machines become more productive in tasks that are already automated), and the …

created. In a static version where capital is fixed and technology is exogenous, automation reduces employment and the labor … capital accumulation and the direction of research towards automation and the creation of new tasks. If the long-run rental … rate of capital relative to the wage is sufficiently low, the long-run equilibrium involves automation of all tasks …

We provide an argument for long-term automation and decline in the labor income share, driven by capital accumulation … rescaled in the same way. Then ongoing capital accumulation gives rise to progressive automation, and the share of labor income …

, and investment in physical and automation capital. We first use the model to evaluate the distributional consequences of … automation. We find heterogeneity in its impact across different occupations, leading to a significant polarization in welfare … redistributive policies that transfer resources from those who benefit from automation to those who bear the brunt of its costs. We …

. As a consequence, it has promoted inefficiently high levels of automation. Moving from the US tax system in the 2010s to … restore the optimal level of automation. If moving to optimal taxes is infeasible, more modest reforms can still increase … employment by 1.14–1.96%, but in this case efficiency can be increased by imposing an additional automation tax to reduce the …