We examine the extent to which declining manufacturing employment may have contributed to increasing inequality in …: the high initial manufacturing wage premium and the high level of income inequality. The manufacturing wage premium … declined between the 1980s and the 2000s in the United States, but it does not explain the contemporaneous rise in inequality …

income inequality in the U.S. during 2010-2015. We exploit spatial and time variations in exposure to robots arising from … for top income fractiles. Therefore, industrial automation fuels income inequality and, particularly, top income … inequality. According to our estimates, one more robot per thousand workers results in relative increments of the total taxable …

), and received inflows of skilled labor. -- skill demand ; job tasks ; inequality ; polarization ; technological change …

, increased that for higher-paid employees, and led to an increase in income inequality. Thus, the more important aspects of new … ; power-biased technical change ; inequality ; work intensity ; effciency wage …