Anna Salomons

Anna Salomons is Professor of Employment and Inequality at Utrecht University’s School of Economics in the Netherlands, having obtained a PhD in Economics at the University of Leuven in Belgium. Anna’s research focuses on the labor market impacts of advancing technology, and has been awarded research grants from the Strengthening Efficiency and Competitiveness in European Knowledge Economies (SEEK) program and the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research. Anna is an affiliated researcher at the University of Leuven and a fellow of the Research Centre for Education and the Labor Market (ROA, University of Maastricht) and has held positions as a visiting researcher at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston University, London School of Economics, and the Center for European Economic Research (ZEW). She has provided policy advice to among others the European Commission, the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe (ALDE) and the Dutch government.

Research areas

• Future of Work Hub
• Institutions for Open Societies

Publications

• “Racing With or Against the Machine? Evidence on the Role of Trade in Europe” (with Terry Gregory and Ulrich Zierahn), forthcoming, Journal of the European Economic Association

• “Do Technological Advances Reduce the Gender Wage Gap?” Oxford Review of Economic Policy, Volume 36, Issue 4, Pages 903–924 (with Matías Cortes and Ana Oliveira), 2021

• "Firm-Level Automation: Evidence from the Netherlands," American Economic Association Papers & Proceedings, May 2020 (with James Bessen, Maarten Goos, and Wiljan Van Den Berge)

• “Is Automation Labor-Displacing? Productivity Growth, Employment, and the Labor Share,” Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, Vol. 49, No. 1, pp. 1-87 (with David Autor).

• "Markets for Jobs and Their Task Overlap," Labour Economics, Volume 61, December 2019 (with Maarten Goos, Emilie Rademakers and Bert Willekens).

• “Job Polarization: Its History, An Intuitive Framework and Some Empirical Evidence,” Oxford Handbook of Job Quality, forthcoming (with Maarten Goos, Emilie Rademakers, and Marieke Vandeweyer).

• "Female CEOs, Board Context, and the Completion of Mergers and Acquisitions in the U.S. Food Industry," In: More Women on Boards of Directors: An International Perspective, Lynne E. Devnew, Ronald J. Burke, Marlene Janzen Le Ber, and Mariateresa Torchia (Eds), Edward Elgar Publishing, forthcoming 2018 (with Gerwin van der Laan and Katrin Muehlfeld).

• "Job Polarization: A Policy Framework," Oxford Review of Economic Policy, March 2018 (with Erik Buyst and Maarten Goos).

• "Robocalypse Now: Does Productivity Growth Threaten Employment?," European Central Bank Conference Proceedings, June 2017, pp. 45-118 (with David Autor).

• "Fear of Robots at Work: The Role of Economic Self-Interest," Socio-Economic Review, February 2017 (with Fabian Dekker and Jeroen van der Waal).

• "Measuring Teaching Quality in Higher Education: Assessing Selection Bias in Course Evaluations," Research in Higher Education, July 2016, 1-24 (with Maarten Goos).

• "Explaining Job Polarization: Routine-Biased Technological Change and Offshoring," American Economic Review, August 2014, 104(8): 2509–2526 (with Maarten Goos and Alan Manning).

• "Explaining Job Polarization: Routine-Biased Technological Change and Offshoring," article reprinted in: The International Library of Critical Writings in Economics: Trade and Inequality, Pinelopi Koujianou Goldberg (Ed.). Edward Elgar Publishing, 2015 (with Maarten Goos and Alan Manning).

• "A Review of "Occupational Change in Europe: How Technology and Education Transform the Job Structure," Industrial and Labor Relations Review, July 2014, 67(3): 1050–1052 (with Maarten Goos)

• "Job Polarization in Europe," American Economic Review Papers and Proceedings, May 2009, 99(2): 58-63 (with Maarten Goos and Alan Manning).