We study a minimal model of automation in which, in the limit, labor is replaced by capital in all tasks. If tasks are gross complements and automation is sufficiently slow, the labor share remains strictly positive despite an endogenous reduction in hours worked and full automation in the...

We study frictionless matching models in large production economies with and without market imperfections and/or incentive problems. We provide necessary and sufficient distribution-free conditions for monotone matching which depend on the relationship between what we call the segregation...