Episode 86: Dan Gross on Labour Market Responses to Automation
Update: 2024-12-16
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The paper discussed in this episode is “Answering the Call of Automation: How the Labor Market Adjusted to Mechanizing Telephone Operation” by James Feigenbaum and Dan Gross.
Papers mentioned in this episode include:
Acemoglu, D., & Restrepo, P. (2019). Automation and new tasks: How technology displaces and reinstates labor. Journal of economic perspectives, 33(2), 3-30.
Autor, D., Chin, C., Salomons, A., & Seegmiller, B. (2024). New frontiers: The origins and content of new work, 1940–2018. The Quarterly Journal of Economics, qjae008.
Gordon, R. (2017). The rise and fall of American growth: The US standard of living since the civil war. Princeton university press.
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