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    },
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        "idx": 2,
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    }
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The Race between Man and Machine: Implications of Technology for Growth, Factor Shares, and Employment. American Economic Review, 108: 1488–1542 — LMIC-CIMT



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The Race between Man and Machine: Implications of Technology for Growth, Factor Shares, and Employment. American Economic Review, 108: 1488–1542

June 6, 2018 | BY

Acemoglu, D., & Restrepo, P.

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This paper discusses the extent to which technology can both replace workers and generate new opportunities for labour. The authors introduce a new conceptual framework in which technology automates some tasks while also creating new, complex tasks in which labour has a comparative advantage. To validate their task-creation framework, the authors note that about 60% of the approximately 50 million jobs added to the US economy during the past 35 years are associated with new job titles. The authors assume that new job titles reflect changes in the underlying tasks that workers perform and therefore use the emergence of new job titles as a proxy for new tasks.

The authors embed their framework into a dynamic model that endogenizes both automation and the creation of new tasks. At the long-run equilibrium, the authors focus on two possible scenarios: 1) the economy displays stable growth of both automation and complex tasks; or 2) automation outpaces the creation of complex tasks at a level that leads to a full-automation environment.

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1. Acemoglu and Restrepo, in "The Race Between Man and Machine," showed that stable long-run employment requires new-task creation to keep pace with automation; when automation runs ahead of reinstatement, the labor share falls and wage growth stalls.
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