demographic shifts, account for plausible changes in labour force participation rates, and achieve target unemployment rates of at … automation further compound the challenge of job creation, which is already quite sizable in historical perspective. Failure to …

This article reviews the literature on automation and its impact on labor markets, wages, factor shares, and … market trends and the effects of automation technologies. The task model clarifies that automation technologies operate by … task models and the displacement effects of automation. I conclude by discussing shortcomings of the existing literature …

factory automation. We build a novel measure of exposure to computer numerical control (CNC) based on initial variation in …

We examine the differential effects of automation on the labor market and educational outcomes of women relative to men … over the past four decades. Although women were disproportionately employed in occupations with a high risk of automation … link by exploiting variation in local labor market exposure to automation attributable to historical differences in local …

Licensed workers could be shielded from unemployment during recession since occupational licensing laws are asymmetric …-in-differences event study research design that exploits cross-state variation in licensing laws to compare the unemployment rate between …, we find that licensing shields workers from a recession-induced increase in the unemployment rate of 0.82 p.p. during …

This paper describes the adoption of automation technologies by US firms across all economic sectors by leveraging a … tasks previously performed by labor. Consistent with the use of these technologies for automation, adopters have higher …