Automation, new tasks, and labor demand
Explore how automation displaces labor, new tasks reinstate it, and U.S. labor-demand growth shifted after 1987.
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Pascual Restrepo
Automation, new tasks, and the labor share
Explore how task-based automation displaces labor, why new tasks stabilize the labor share, and the risks of so-so AI and excessive automation.
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