The elusive explanation for the declining labor share

GM Grossman, E Oberfield - Annual Review of Economics, 2022 - annualreviews.org
A vast literature seeks to measure and explain the apparent decline in the labor share in
national income that has occurred in recent times in the United States and elsewhere. The …

Automation: Theory, Evidence, and Outlook

P Restrepo - Annual Review of Economics, 2023 - annualreviews.org
This article reviews the literature on automation and its impact on labor markets, wages,
factor shares, and productivity. I first introduce the task model and explain why this …

Automation, digitalization, and artificial intelligence in the workplace: implications for political behavior

A Gallego, T Kurer - Annual Review of Political Science, 2022 - annualreviews.org
New technologies have been a key driver of labor market change in recent decades. There
are renewed concerns that technological developments in areas such as robotics and …

New frontiers: The origins and content of new work, 1940–2018

D Autor, C Chin, A Salomons… - The Quarterly Journal of …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
We answer three core questions about the hypothesized role of newly emerging job
categories (“new work”) in counterbalancing the erosive effect of task-displacing automation …

[HTML][HTML] The rise of robots and the fall of routine jobs

GJ De Vries, E Gentile, S Miroudot, KM Wacker - Labour economics, 2020 - Elsevier
This paper examines the impact of industrial robots on jobs. We combine data on robot
adoption and occupations by industry in thirty-seven countries for the period from 2005 to …

The role of robot adoption in green innovation: Evidence from China

J Gan, L Liu, G Qiao, Q Zhang - Economic Modelling, 2023 - Elsevier
Green innovative activities are important for sustainable business development and green
growth. However, little attention has been given to the role of technology adoption in green …

Individual vulnerability to industrial robot adoption increases support for the radical right

M Anelli, I Colantone, P Stanig - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - National Acad Sciences
The increasing success of populist and radical-right parties is one of the most remarkable
developments in the politics of advanced democracies. We investigate the impact of …

Robot imports and firm-level outcomes

A Bonfiglioli, R Crino, H Fadinger, G Gancia - 2020 - papers.ssrn.com
We use French data over the 1994-2013 period to study how imports of industrial robots
affect firm-level outcomes. Compared to other firms operating in the same 5-digit industry …

Do robots really destroy jobs? Evidence from Europe

D Klenert, E Fernandez-Macias… - Economic and …, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
While citizen opinion polls reveal that Europeans are concerned about the labour market
consequences of technological progress, our understanding of the actual significance of this …

Automation and the workforce: A firm-level view from the 2019 Annual Business Survey

D Acemoglu, GW Anderson, DN Beede, C Buffington… - 2022 - nber.org
This paper describes the adoption of automation technologies by US firms across all
economic sectors by leveraging a new module introduced in the 2019 Annual Business …