The impact of industrial robots on EU employment and wages: A local labour market approach
We study the impact of industrial robots on employment and wages in six European Union countries, that make up 85.5 percent of the EU industrial robots market. In theory, robots can directly displace workers from performing specific tasks (displacement effect). But they can also expand labour demand through the efficiencies they bring to industrial production (productivity effect). We adopt the local labour market equilibrium approach developed by Acemoglu and Restrepo (2017) to assess which of the two labour market effects dominates. We find that one additional robot per thousand workers reduces the employment rate by 0.16-0.20 percentage points. Thus a significant displacement effect dominates. We find that the displacement effect is particularly evident for workers of middle education and for young cohorts. Our estimates, however, do not point to robust and significant results on the impact of robots on wage growth, even after accounting for possible offsetting effects across different populations and sectoral groups.
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2018
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Authors: | Chiacchio, Francesco ; Petropoulos, Georgios ; Pichler, David |
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Brussels : Bruegel |
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freely available
Series: | Bruegel Working Paper ; 2018/02 |
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Type of publication: | Book / Working Paper |
Type of publication (narrower categories): | Working Paper |
Language: | English |
Other identifiers: | 1028792522 [GVK] hdl:10419/207001 [Handle] |
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Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012140818
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