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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …