This paper develops a model that explores automation and unemployment through job availability. In our model, workers differ in terms of their suitability for tasks. Depending on their task suitability, automation leads to either positive or negative effects on their job matching. Each worker...

This paper presents a model of technical change that combines two lines of research together. It is a task based model, in which automation turns labor tasks to mechanized ones, and there is also a continuous addition of new labor tasks, as in the expanding variety literature. We impose three...

This study investigates the individual consequences on workers under the effect of increased automation considering the suitability of workers for various tasks. We consider workers with a low ability level. The job mismatch probability of a worker rises (or declines) if machines perform a more...