Automation, Gender, and Inequality: Which Tradeoffs do Policymakers Face?

Autor/inn/en	Bishnu, Monisankar; Chingri, Subhrasil; Mondal, Debasis; Prettner, Klaus
Institution	Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien / Institut für Volkswirtschaftstheorie und -politik
Titel	Automation, Gender, and Inequality: Which Tradeoffs do Policymakers Face? Gefälligkeitsübersetzung: Automatisierung, Geschlecht und Ungleichheit: Welche Kompromisse müssen politische Entscheidungsträger eingehen?
Quelle	Wien (2025), 36 S. PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Reihe	Department of Economics working paper / Vienna University of Economics and Business. 395
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; Monografie
Schlagwörter	Frauenförderung; Automatisierung; Roboter; Einkommensunterschied; Beschäftigungseffekt; Einkommenseffekt; Steuer; Verarbeitendes Gewerbe; Wirtschaftssektor; Wirtschaftswachstum; Arbeitskräftebedarf; Niedrig Qualifizierter; Qualifikation; Arbeitspapier; Auswirkung; Geschlechtsspezifik; Umverteilung; Hoch Qualifizierter; USA
Abstract	"This paper examines the role of automation in shaping gender inequality among high-skilled and low-skilled workers in the United States. We develop an R&D-based growth model of automation in which we endogenize disparities between men and women and between high-skilled and low-skilled labor through education choices. Automation substitutes for routine, brawn-intensive tasks, while it complements high-skilled, brain-intensive ones. Our framework predicts that automation increases demand for high-skilled workers, raising female participation in knowledge production but also widening within-gender and between-skills inequality. Redistributive transfers to low-skilled workers, financed through robot taxation, reduce high-skilled employment, lower innovation, and slow down economic growth despite compressing within-gender and between-skills inequality. Education subsidies expand the share of skilled workers and foster innovation but come at the cost of greater within-gender and between-skills inequality. Subsidies targeted on women reduce between-gender inequality, but they can raise within-gender inequality and slow down economic growth. Finally, in the case of the presence of norms and institutions that are detrimental to gender equality, female empowerment can reduce inequality and raise economic growth at the same time." The study refers to the period 1979-2022 (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku).
Erfasst von	Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung, Nürnberg
Update	2026/4