Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/249320 
Year of Publication: 
2019
Series/Report no.: 
Department of Economic Policy Working Paper Series No. 21
Publisher: 
University of Economics in Bratislava, Department of Economic Policy, Bratislava
Abstract: 
To understand the effects of automation and other types of technological changes on European labor demand, we use an empirical decomposition of observed changes in the total wage bill in the economy developed by Acemoglu and Restrepo (2019). The decomposition is derived from a task-based model that allows us to study the effects of different technologies on labor demand. At the center of this framework is the task content of production-measuring the allocation of tasks to factors of production. Automation, by creating a displacement effect, shifts the task content of production against labor, while the introduction of new tasks in which labor has a comparative advantage improves it via the reinstatement effect. Overall effects are country- and time-specific and call for an empirical exploration. We apply the decomposition to 15 European countries with good data coverage in the EU KLEMS database.
Subjects: 
automation
displacement effect
labor demand
productivity
reinstatement effect
technology
wage share
JEL: 
J23
J24
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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