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. Using a difference-in-differences design, we show that adopting a robot drives prostate cancer patients to the hospital. To …
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Migration is a key mechanism through which local labor markets adjust to economic shocks. In this paper, we analyze the migration response of American workers to two of the most important shocks that hit US manufacturing since the 1990s: Chinese import competition and the introduction of...
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, robot adoption by firms endogenously responds to labor scarcity, alleviating potential displacement of existing workers …
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Using several sources, we construct a data set of robot purchases by French manufacturing firms and study the firm …-level implications of robot adoption. Out of 55,390 firms in our sample, 598 have adopted robots between 2010 and 2015, but these firms … account for 20% of manufacturing employment and value added. Consistent with theory, robot adopters experience significant …
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that an additional robot reduces employment and wages in an industry by roughly as much as an additional 2 to 3 workers and …
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Technological change, from the advent of robots to expanded trade opportunities, tends to create winners and losers. How should government policy respond? And how should the overall welfare impact of technological change on society be valued? We provide a general theory of optimal technology...
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from Colombia for cheaper robot-made U.S. products. We use employer-employee matched data from the Colombian social …
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staffing in Japanese nursing homes, using geographic variation in robot subsidies as an instrumental variable. We find that … robot adoption increases employment by augmenting the number of care workers and nurses on flexible employment contracts …, and decreases difficulty in staff retention. Robot adoption also reduces the monthly wages of regular nurses, consistent …
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This paper studies information diffusion in social media and the role of bots in shaping public opinions. Using Twitter data on the 2016 E.U. Referendum ("Brexit") and the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election, we find that diffusion of information on Twitter is largely complete within 1-2 hours....
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We argue theoretically and document empirically that aging leads to greater (industrial) automation, and in particular, to more intensive use and development of robots. Using US data, we document that robots substitute for middle-aged workers (those between the ages of 36 and 55). We then show...
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