, as a technology platform, can automate tasks previously performed by labor or create new tasks and activities in which … on creating new tasks where labor can be productively employed. The consequences of this choice have been stagnating …

allocation of tasks to capital and labor – the task content of production. Automation, which enables capital to replace labor in … tasks it was previously engaged in, shifts the task content of production against labor because of a displacement effect. As … productivity. The effects of automation are counterbalanced by the creation of new tasks in which labor has a comparative advantage …

and service-oriented tasks across all workers, but exacerbates health inequality between cognitive and manual workers …

, skills, and the tasks they perform. In this paper we study the effects of automation on labor market outcomes in a developing … workers differently than older workers? Do young workers tend to perform routine tasks? Are young workers in routine … routinization of tasks across districts and occupations and a change in the trend of automation technology adoption in Chile. We …

We develop an assignment model of automation. Each of a continuum of tasks of variable complexity is assigned to either … capital or one of a continuum of labor skills. We characterize conditions for interior automation, whereby tasks of … advantage in the most complex tasks relative to capital, and because the wages of the least skilled workers are sufficiently low …

by new technologies. For this, we implement a binding minimum wage in a task‐based framework, in which tasks are …‐intensive tasks do not increase the aggregate output in general, as the displacement of low‐skill workers counteracts the positive …