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skill premium above a skill threshold and reduces the skill premium below this threshold. Moreover, automation tends to … increases in capital productivity ultimately induce a transition to low-skill automation and qualitatively alter the effects of … automation - thereafter inducing monotone increases in skill premia rather than wage polarization …
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This paper studies the effects of automation in economies with labor market distortions that generate worker rents--wages above opportunity cost--in some jobs. We show that automation targets high-rent tasks, dissipating rents and amplifying wage losses from automation. It also reduces...
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In the presence of markup differences, externalities and other social considerations, the equilibrium direction of innovation can be systematically distorted. This paper builds a simple model of endogenous technology, which generalizes existing comparative static results and characterizes...
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task content of jobs and skill characteristics of workers and document its geographic distribution and association with …
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This review considers the evolution of economic thinking on the relationship between digital technology and inequality across four decades, encompassing four related but intellectually distinct paradigms, which I refer to as the education race, the task polarization model, the...
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We analyze how output and wages behave under different scenarios for technological progress that may culminate in Artificial General Intelligence (AGI), defined as the ability of AI systems to perform all tasks that humans can perform. We assume that human work can be decomposed into atomistic...
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How do college students and postsecondary institutions react to changes in skill demand in the U.S. labor market? We …
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We study the adoption of remote work within cities and its effect on city structure and welfare. We develop a dynamic model of a city in which workers can decide to work in the central business district (CBD) or partly at home. Working in the CBD allows them to interact with other commuters,...
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We develop measures of labor-saving and labor-augmenting technology exposure using textual analysis of patents and job tasks. Using US administrative data, we show that both measures negatively predict earnings growth of individual incumbent workers. While labor-saving technologies predict...
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supply and demand for skills by assuming two distinct skill groups that perform two different and imperfectly substitutable … complementing either high or low skill workers, can generate skill biased demand shifts. In this paper, we argue that despite its … decades, including: (1) significant declines in real wages of low skill workers, particularly low skill males; (2) non …
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