This paper reviews the emerging literature on which jobs can be performed from home and
presents new estimates of the prevalence of such jobs based on the task content of …

China's emergence as a great economic power has induced an epochal shift in patterns of
world trade. Simultaneously, it has challenged much of the received empirical wisdom about …

In order to better understand the complex and dialectical relationships between digital
technologies, innovation, and skills, it is necessary to improve our understanding of the …

We synthesize the literature on the recent rise of populism. First, we discuss definitions and
present descriptive evidence on the recent increase in support for populists. Second, we …

This research illustrates the relevance of individual digital capabilities for SMEs' growth and
innovation performance. Going beyond Penrosian growth theory, taking a microfoundational …

Climate change and increasing income inequality have emerged as twin threats to
contemporary standards of living, peace and democracy. These two problems are usually …

We study the effects of industrial robots on US labor markets. We show theoretically that
robots may reduce employment and wages and that their local impacts can be estimated …

We study the impact of rising robot exposure on the careers of individual manufacturing
workers, and the equilibrium impact across industries and local labor markets in Germany …

The labor market increasingly rewards social skills. Between 1980 and 2012, jobs requiring
high levels of social interaction grew by nearly 12 percentage points as a share of the US …

In this essay, I begin by identifying the reasons that automation has not wiped out a majority
of jobs over the decades and centuries. Automation does indeed substitute for labor—as it is …