executing nonroutine abstract tasks, and substitutes for unskilled workers in performing routine tasks. When we use our …

largest US cities in the period 1990-2009. As a result of technological change some tasks can be placed at distance, while … others require proximity. We construct a measure of task connectivity to investigate which tasks are more likely to require … proximity relative to others. Our results suggest that cities with higher shares of connected tasks experienced higher …

theoretical and an empirical point of view. Given that jobs can be broken down into tasks, namely units of work activities … differences in the intensity with which tasks are implemented. We then investigate whether the variety in task implementation …

A fast-growing literature shows that digital technologies are displacing labor from routine tasks, raising concerns …

employment growth in countries with a high share of occupations that are intensive in routine tasks. …

, 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 …