Do higher wages lead to more automation innovation? To answer this question, we first use the frequency of certain … keywords in patent text to create a new measure of automation innovation in machinery. We show that our measure is correlated …-level panel analysis, we find that an increase in low-skill wages leads to more automation innovation with an elasticity between 2 …

linked fields. Our analysis uses 1.8 million U.S. patents and their citation properties to map the innovation network and its … strength. Past innovation network structures are calculated using citation patterns across technology classes during 1975 … predictive power on future innovation after 1995. This pattern is consistent with the idea that when there is more past upstream …