Showing 1 - 10 of 125
How do firms respond to technological advances that facilitate the automation of tasks? Which tasks will they automate …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010478513
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010484463
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013166128
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013169734
New automation technologies affect workers in a heterogeneous manner according to their demographic characteristics …, skills, and the tasks they perform. In this paper we study the effects of automation on labor market outcomes in a developing … country, Chile. We focus our analysis on the heterogeneous impacts of automation across cohorts. Does automation affect young …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012818023
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012802671
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012546771
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012591290
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013270096
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013190698