Automation and New Tasks: How Technology Displaces and Reinstates Labor
We present a framework for understanding the effects of automation and other types of technological changes on labor demand, and use it to interpret changes in US employment over the recent past. At the center of our framework is the allocation of tasks to capital and labor-the task content of produ...
Main Authors: | Acemoglu, K. Daron (Author), Restrepo, Pascual (Author) |
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Other Authors: | Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Economics (Contributor) |
Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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American Economic Association,
2020-12-14T23:34:29Z.
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Online Access: | Get fulltext |
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