Acemoglu, Daron; Restrepo, Pascual - 2017
concern about the future of jobs and wages. We analyze the effect of the increase in industrial robot usage between 1990 and … bolster this evidence by showing that the commuting zones most exposed to robots in the post-1990 era do not exhibit any … differential trends before 1990. The impact of robots is distinct from the impact of imports from China and Mexico, the decline of …