We analyze how and through which channels wage inequality is affected by the rise in automation and robotization in the manufacturing sector in Germany from 1996 to 2017. Combining rich linked employer-employee data accounting for a variety of different individual, firm and industry...

The paper provides fresh empirical evidence on the relative contribution of final and intermediate demand to changes in the sectoral structure of advanced economies. These latter have led, over the last three decades, to the massive growth of service sectors, most especially the business...