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 within-group wage dispersion for exposed groups. Automation-driven rent dissipation …

How do firms respond to technological advances that facilitate the automation of tasks? Which tasks will they automate …

New automation technologies affect workers in a heterogeneous manner according to their demographic characteristics …, skills, and the tasks they perform. In this paper we study the effects of automation on labor market outcomes in a developing … country, Chile. We focus our analysis on the heterogeneous impacts of automation across cohorts. Does automation affect young …

We show, theoretically and empirically, that the effects of technological change associated with automation and … is that better matches enjoy a comparative advantage in exploiting automation and a comparative disadvantage in … exploiting offshoring. It implies that automation (offshoring) may reduce (raise) employment by lengthening (shortening …