on robots and trade, the magnitude of these taxes may decrease as the process of automation and globalization deepens and …

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 …

We use a model of automation to show that with the current U.S. tax system, a fall in automation costs could lead to a … there is partial automation …

finding might reflect the more rapid adoption of automation technologies in countries undergoing more pronounced demographic …

How do employment, tasks, and productivity change with robot adoption? Unlike manufacturing, little is known about … these issues in the service sector, where robot adoption is expanding. As a first step towards filling this gap, we study …. We find that robot adoption is accompanied by an increase in employment and retention and the relationship is strongest …

that an additional robot reduces employment and wages in an industry by roughly as much as an additional 2 to 3 workers and …

. Using a difference-in-differences design, we show that adopting a robot drives prostate cancer patients to the hospital. To …