central role of automation and new tasks in recent labor market trends. We also explain how general equilibrium effects …

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 …

The last decades have witnessed a revolution in manufacturing production characterized by increasing technology …, the International Federation of Robotics, EU KLEMS, and COMTRADE, we study the causal effect of industrial automation on … for top income fractiles. Therefore, industrial automation fuels income inequality and, particularly, top income …

-skilled workers, caused mainly by computerization and related forms of advanced technology, explain both the declining wages of low …Measured by changes in real wages, earnings inequality and unemployment, the economic position of lower skilled workers … alternative account might take that places less weight on technology driven demand shifts and greater weight on the effects of …

We offer an integrated explanation and empirical analysis of the polarization of U.S. employment and wages between 1980 … that were specialized in routine activities differentially adopted information technology, reallocated low skill labor into …

manufacturing. Earnings losses are larger for individuals with low initial wages, low initial tenure, and low attachment to the …