career implications of automation and robotization using a novel data set of resumes from approximately 16 million … mobility mitigate the negative effects of automation on career values. We also show that the changes in career values are … candidate, as proxied by the vote share of Trump in 2016. We also find further evidence that automation affected both the demand …

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 …

innovation can be systematically distorted. This paper builds a simple model of endogenous technology, which generalizes existing … comparative static results and characterizes potential distortions in the direction of innovation. I show that empirical findings … automation, health care, and energy, and correcting these distortions could have sizable welfare benefits …

Drawing insights from the field of innovation economics, we discuss the likely competitive environment shaping … stifling broad sectoral innovation. We conclude with speculations regarding how this oligopolistic future might be averted …

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 …

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 …