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Pascual Restrepo is Assistant Professor of Economics at Boston University. His research interests span labour and macroeconomics. His current research examines the impact of technology, and in particular of automation, on labour markets, employment, wages, inequality, the distribution of income, and growth. Recent empirical projects include a study of the impact of industrial robots on US labour markets, a study of how the decline of routine jobs interacted with the Great Recession, and a study on how aging and shortages of labour induce firms to automate their production process. His theoretical work centres on developing micro-founded models of technology choice to think about the short and long-run implications of different technologies and whether the resulting growth process is balanced.