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

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 …

automation, skill-biased technical change, offshoring, and worker training. Using the model, I characterize how wages, the … to workers. I introduce automation as the choice of the optimal size and location of a mass of identical robots in the … task space. Automation displaces workers by replacing them in the performance of tasks, generating a cascading effect on …