This paper studies the effects of automation of production on labor market outcomes, and whether there is an effect of … automation on functional and personal inequality in Latin America. The paper combines several data sources and empirical … are more likely to be affected by automation, using indexes of task routinization by occupation; and ii) the effects of …

We examine the impact of labor market power on firms' adoption of automation technologies. We develop a model that … incorporates labor market power into the task-based theory of automation. We show that, due to higher marginal cost of labor … employment effects of automation. Using data from US commuting zones, our results show that commuting zones that are more exposed …