Communication Technologies (ICT) and robots, in 14 European countries between 2010 and 2018. To identify the causal effects of … strategy proposed by Acemoglu and Restrepo (2020). We find that the exposure to ICT and robots increased the shares of young … and prime-aged women in employment and the wage bills of particular sectors, but reduced the shares of older women and …

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the mechanisms underlying the relationship between automation and labor … realize the tasks necessary for the production process. The two scenarios considered, with and without automation, confirm … that automation is indeed a key factor in polarizing the structure of skill demand and increasing wage inequality. This …

average, perform more routine tasks than men?tasks that are more prone to automation. To quantify the impact on jobs, we … relate data on task composition at work to occupation level estimates of probability of automation, controlling for a rich … workers are at a significantly higher risk for displacement by automation than male workers, with 11 percent of the female …

We propose a theoretical framework to analyze the offshoring and reshoring decisions of firms in the age of automation …. Our theory suggests that increasing productivity in automation leads to a relocation of previously offshored production … it leads also to increasing wages for high-skilled workers, automation induced reshoring is associated with an increasing …