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Technology Adoption and Market Allocation : The Case of Robotic Surgery

Horn, Danea; Sacarny, Adam; Zhou, R. Annetta - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

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

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Local Shocks and Internal Migration : The Disparate Effects of Robots and Chinese Imports in the US

Faber, Marius; Sarto, Andrés P.; Tabellini, Marco - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

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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Robots and Firm Investment

Benmelech, Efraim; Zator, Michal - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

, robot adoption by firms endogenously responds to labor scarcity, alleviating potential displacement of existing workers …

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From Immigrants to Robots : The Changing Locus of Substitutes for Workers

Borjas, George J. - 2019

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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Robots, Trade, and Luddism : A Sufficient Statistic Approach to Optimal Technology Regulation

Costinot, Arnaud - 2018

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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U.S. Robots and their Impacts in the Tropics : Evidence from Colombian Labor Markets

Kugler, Adriana D. - 2020

from Colombia for cheaper robot-made U.S. products. We use employer-employee matched data from the Colombian social …

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Robots and Labor in the Service Sector : Evidence from Nursing Homes

Eggleston, Karen - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

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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Social Media, Sentiment and Public Opinions : Evidence from #Brexit and #USElection

Gorodnichenko, Yuriy - 2018

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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AI, Labor, Productivity and the Need for Firm-Level Data

Seamans, Robert - 2018

We summarize existing empirical findings regarding the adoption of robotics and AI and its effects on aggregated labor and productivity, and argue for more systematic collection of the use of these technologies at the firm level. Existing empirical work primarily uses statistics aggregated by...

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Should Robots be Taxed?

Guerreiro, Joao - 2017

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 massive rise in income inequality. This inequality can be reduced by raising marginal income tax rates and taxing robots. But this solution involves a substantial efficiency...

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