Restrepo-Mesa, Pascual

Resumen: This paper argues that much of the rise in US wage inequality is due to the uneven effects of task-displacing technologies---like automation and offshoring---on different groups of workers. Using a task-based model, we show that real wages depend on the range and...

Resumen:  This paper studies the effects of partial automation (i.e., the creation of technology capable of automating some but not all components of a job). We consider a model where jobs entail a bundle of tasks, workers may trade the output of the requisite tasks at a...