Technological change transforms the range of activities that workers engage in and typically has distributional consequences. Skill-biased technological change during the 1970s and 1980s increased the demand for educated workers at the expense of those with lower levels of formal education (Autor et al. 1998, Autor and Katz 1999, and Acemoglu 2020), whereas automation technologies widely adopted starting in the 1990s reduced demand for routine jobs in the…
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