Episode 86: Dan Gross on Labour Market Responses to Automation

Dan Gross is an Associate Professor in the Strategy area at Duke's Fuqua School of Business

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.