We are experiencing a period of rapid automation, and its implications for employment, wages, and inequality are a source of controversy. New technologies, advances in automation and digitalization, and the use of AI have the potential to outcompete humans in a wide range of tasks. Job destruction, and social disruptions, worry many when thinking about the future. Yet, technologies had a different impact on local labor markets across developed countries as institutional differences played a major role in shaping the distribution of benefits. Our aim in this project is to contribute to a better understanding and to provide new empirical evidence on the effects of different technologies on employment and wage inequality, displacement of workers, and creation of new work, and explore the role of institutional differences, strategies, and policies in shifting the trends towards an inclusive society and shared prosperity.