Most countries exhibit large and persistent geographical differences in wages, income, and unemployment rates. A growing class of place-based policies attempts to address these …
T Fetzer - American Economic Review, 2019 - aeaweb.org
This paper documents a significant association between the exposure of an individual or area to the UK government's austerity-induced welfare reforms begun in 2010, and the …
D Acemoglu - AEA Papers and Proceedings, 2023 - aeaweb.org
In the presence of markup differences, externalities, and other social effects, the direction of innovation can be systematically distorted. I build a simple model of endogenous technology …
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 …
D Acemoglu, P Restrepo - The Review of Economic Studies, 2022 - academic.oup.com
We argue theoretically and document empirically that aging leads to greater (industrial) automation, because it creates a shortage of middle-aged workers specializing in manual …
In recent years, there has been a revival of concerns that automation and digitalisation might after all result in a jobless future. The debate has been fuelled by studies for the US and …
We examine the concerns that new technologies will render labor redundant in a framework in which tasks previously performed by labor can be automated and new versions of existing …