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JOURNAL OF HUMAN CAPITAL
Volume 12, Issue 2, Pages 204-232Publisher
UNIV CHICAGO PRESS
DOI: 10.1086/697242
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- Sloan Foundation
- Smith Richardson Foundation
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We present a task-based model in which high- and low-skill workers compete against machines in the production of tasks. Low-skill (high-skill) automation corresponds to tasks performed by low-skill (high-skill) labor being taken over by capital. Automation displaces the type of labor it directly affects, depressing its wage. Through ripple effects, automation also affects the real wage of other workers. Counteracting these forces, automation creates a positive productivity effect, pushing up the price of all factors. Because capital adjusts to keep the interest rate constant, the productivity effect dominates in the long run. Finally, low-skill (high-skill) automation increases (reduces) wage inequality.
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