by the relative wage declines of worker groups specialized in routine tasks in industries experiencing rapid automation … capital. Automation technologies expand the set of tasks performed by capital, displacing certain worker groups from … between 1980 and 2016. Our task displacement variable captures the effects of automation technologies (and to a lesser degree …

evaluate the global consequences of automation. Automation, modeled as capital- and high-skill biased technological change, is … a range of foundational models of automation. In our baseline scenario, automation has a moderate effect on regional … of the advanced technology and providing universal basic income to share gains from automation. The former policy can …

were obstacles: the manual switchboard was the fulcrum of a complex system which had developed around it, and automation … profitable for AT&T in larger markets--hence diffusion expanded as costs declined and service areas grew. We show that automation … supported AT&T's continued growth, generating a positive feedback loop between scale and automation that reinforced AT&T's high …

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 …

on robots and trade, the magnitude of these taxes may decrease as the process of automation and globalization deepens and …

COVID-19 may accelerate the automation of jobs, as employers invest in technology to adapt the production process to … safeguard against current and potential future pandemics. We identify occupations that have high automation potential and also …

, 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 …