New technologies have been a key driver of labor market change in recent decades. There are renewed concerns that technological developments in areas such as robotics and artificial intelligence will destroy jobs and create ...
This paper explores the employment trajectories of workers exposed to technological change. Based on individual-level panel data from the UK, we first confirm that the share of middle-skilled routine workers has declined, ...
Schöll, Nikolas; Kurer, Thomas(Cambridge University Press, 2023)
Does technological change fuel political disruption? Drawing on fine-grained labor market data from Germany, this paper examines how technological change affects regional electorates. We first show that the well-known ...
Gallego Dobón, Aina; Kurer, Thomas; Schöll, Nikolas(University of Chicago Press, 2022)
The nascent literature on the political consequences of technological change studies either left-behind voters or successful technology entrepreneurs (“superstars”). However, it neglects the large share of skilled workers ...
New digital technologies are transforming workplaces, with unequal economic consequences depending on workers skills. Does digitalization also cause divergence in political preferences? Using an innovative empirical ...
