Are labor-saving innovations job creators or job destroyers? Do they help or hurt labor? These issues, hotly disputed in recent worries over offshore outsourcing, are of older origin. In 1821 David Ricardo argued that technological progress embodied in a new machine permanently hurts labor. It...

This paper analyses how differences in the degree of occupational routine-intensity affect the costs of job loss. We use worker-level data on mass layoffs in Germany between 1980 and 2010 and provide causal evidence that workers who used to be employed in more routine-intensive occupa-tions...

This paper analyses how differences in the degree of occupational routine-intensity affect the costs of job loss. We use worker-level data on mass layoffs in Germany between 1980 and 2010 and provide causal evidence that workers who used to be employed in more routine-intensive occupations...