Technological progress has contributed to rising wage inequality in recent decades. Automation and digitalisation increasingly require workers with specialised knowledge for specific tasks, say Ester Faia, Gianmarco Ottaviano, and Saverio Spinella. In this setting, automation can enhance complementarities between workers' specialised skills and firms' specific tasks.

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23 January 2023

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Vox EU

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https://cepr.org/voxeu/columns/robot-adoption-worker-firm-sorting-and-wage-inequality-evidence-administrative-panel

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