. Particularly, there are concerns that automation may threat jobs in emerging countries given the erosion of the labour cost …

service sectors. Reflecting current preoccupations, our demand analysis seeks also to accommodate the impact of technology and … trade in addition to wages. The bottom-line interests are to provide elasticities of the demand for unskilled (and other … technology. …

research design focuses on a technology subsidy program in Finland that induced sharp increases in technology investment in …

service sectors. Reflecting current preoccupations, our demand analysis seeks also to accommodate the impact of technology and … trade in addition to wages. The bottom-line interests are to provide elasticities of the demand for unskilled (and other … technology. …

This paper investigates several channels through which automation affects an emerging economy. Building on a Ricardian … model of trade with sectoral linkages and a two-stage production technology, in which robots replace labor in certain tasks …, it is shown that domestic and foreign automation have differential effects on labor markets. Based on this model, the …

technology adoption, we utilise the variation in technology adoption between industries and apply the instrumental variables …

higher wages at the bottom make interior automation less likely. Starting with interior automation, a reduction in the cost …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 …

innovations and skill-biased wage changes. The results indicate that innovations positively influence the wages of skilled workers … while they negatively influence the wages of the unskilled. -- Innovation ; employment ; wages ; Poland …