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 …

result of productivity growth (assumed to reflect automation) and are part of a long-term trend. Since the 1980s, however … capture many factors besides automation, and cautions against using descriptive evidence to draw causal inferences. It also … employment in the 2000s, but finds little evidence of a causal link to automation. …