complexity and its training requirements. When two tasks are equally complex, firms will automate the task that requires more … training and in which labor is hence more expensive. Under quite general conditions this leads to job polarization, a decline …. The model makes novel predictions regarding occupational training requirements, which we find to be consistent with US …

engineering sense) of the task, against the cost of employing workers, which is increasing in training time required by the task …. Insights from artificial intelligence and robotics suggest that some tasks do not require training regardless of complexity …, while in other tasks training is required and increases in complexity. In equilibrium, firms are more likely to automate a …