How do firms respond to technological advances that facilitate the automation of tasks? Which tasks will they automate …

humans can be productively employed. Recent technological change has been biased towards automation, with insufficient focus … tendency is to develop AI in the direction of further automation, but this might mean missing out on the promise of the "right …

We present a framework for understanding the effects of automation and other types of technological changes on labor … allocation of tasks to capital and labor – the task content of production. Automation, which enables capital to replace labor in … a result, automation always reduces the labor share in value added and may reduce labor demand even as it raises …

developments, some argue that large shares of jobs are “at risk of automation”, spurring public fears of massive job-losses and …. First, the chapter discusses estimates of automation potentials, showing that many estimates are severely upward biased …

ideology scores from the Manifesto Project. We measure exposure to automation both at the regional level, based on the ex …

ignored in the minimum wage literature are in fact quite vulnerable to employment changes and job loss because of automation …

We show, theoretically and empirically, that the effects of technological change associated with automation and … is that better matches enjoy a comparative advantage in exploiting automation and a comparative disadvantage in … exploiting offshoring. It implies that automation (offshoring) may reduce (raise) employment by lengthening (shortening …

supply on automation innovation by exploiting an immigrant placement policy in Germany during the 1990s and 2000s. Difference …-in-differences estimates indicate that one additional worker per 1,000 manual and unskilled workers reduces automation innovation by 0 …