, 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 …

of low-tenure and low-human-capital incumbent workers performing high-physical and low-intellectual tasks; (2) apply a …

' characteristics and their tasks. Skill-adjusted labor input measures have been shown to be important for aggregate productivity … emphasizes the task content of production. Our ultimate objective is to open this black box of tasks and skills at the … suggestive empirical analysis of the relationship between within-industry dispersion in productivity and tasks and skills. We …

of low-tenure and low-human-capital incumbent workers performing high-physical and low-intellectual tasks; (2) apply a …