polarization resulted from increased automation, and provide a theoretical explanation. In our model, firms deciding whether to … fall. In addition to explaining job polarization, our model makes sense of observed patterns of automation and accounts for …

We analyze the effects of automation on the wages of high-skilled and low-skilled workers and thereby on the evolution …

We develop an assignment model of automation. Each of a continuum of tasks of variable complexity is assigned to either … capital or one of a continuum of labor skills. We characterize conditions for interior automation, whereby tasks of … intermediate complexity are assigned to capital. Interior automation arises when the most skilled workers have a comparative …

We analyze the effects of automation on the wages of high-skilled and low- skilled workers and thereby on the evolution …

We analyze how and through which channels wage inequality is affected by the rise in automation and robotization in the … manufacturing sector in Germany from 1996 to 2017. Combining rich linked employer-employee data accounting for a variety of … different individual, firm and industry characteristics with data on industrial robots and automation probabilities of …