Automation and New Tasks: How Technology Displaces and Reinstates Labor
Automation and New Tasks: How Technology Displaces and Reinstates Labor
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Nashville: American Economic Association
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Nashville: American Economic Association
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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 production. Automation, which enables capital to replac...
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Automation and New Tasks: How Technology Displaces and Reinstates Labor
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TN_cdi_proquest_journals_2218935466
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/TN_cdi_proquest_journals_2218935466
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0895-3309
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1944-7965
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10.1257/jep.33.2.3
