Roberta Capello

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Roberta Capello is a prominent researcher specializing in regional economics, urban economics, and the spatial dimensions of technological change. Her work sits at the intersection of labor market dynamics and automation technologies, with a particular focus on how these forces manifest differently across urban and non-urban environments. Capello's most notable contributions center on understanding the heterogeneous impacts of automation and robotization on employment and wage inequality. Her 2023 paper on automation and labor market inequalities, which has garnered 10 citations, makes a compelling case that displacement effects from automation technologies are not uniform across space — cities and non-cities experience fundamentally different labor market consequences. Building on this, her 2024 work extends this spatial lens to examine how automation drives wage inequality both within and across regions, challenging assumptions that metropolitan areas are somehow insulated from these pressures. Her research is particularly valuable for policymakers and scholars grappling with the uneven geographical consequences of technological disruption. By foregrounding the urban-regional dimension in automation debates, Capello has carved out a distinctive and timely niche in economic geography. Students studying regional development, labor economics, or the future of work will find her spatially nuanced perspective an essential counterpoint to purely aggregate analyses of automation's societal effects.