This paper surveys publications in the fields of economic history and demography in the ESR since 1969. Numbering sixty …

To rationalize a substantial income share of labor despite progressive task automation over the centuries, we present a … sophistication. Automation of more sophisticated goods requires capital of increasing quality. Quality capital remains scarce along …

Recent evidence for the U.S. suggests that recessions play a crucial role in promoting automation and the reallocation …

Recent evidence suggests that recessions play a crucial role in promoting automation and the reallocation of productive …, income groups, industries, and regions, the two indices are strongly negatively correlated, suggesting that automation will …

curve, which draws the classical inverse relation between the job vacancy rate and the unemployment rate, before, during …

The divergence of unemployment rates between the United States and Europe coincided with a substantial acceleration in … change. The proposed framework offers a novel explanation for the observed divergence of unemployment rates across economies … adoption. The results of the paper challenge the popular, but controversial, view that blames generous unemployment insurance …

German unemployment insurance system and resulted in a significant reduction in unemployment benefits for the long …-term unemployed. In this paper, we use an incomplete-market model with search unemployment to evaluate the macro-economic and welfare …-run (noncyclical)unemployment rate in Germany by 1.4 percentage points. We also find that the welfare of employed households increases …

pandemic: the potential of a job to be carried out 'from home' and the risk of being substituted by automation. Using unique … remote working potential and more automation risk are related to larger expected losses in employment due to COVID-19 for …

"recall") unemployment, those "employed but absent from work" for unspecified reasons, or not in the labour force while …