quality care. Robots are associated with improved quality (reduction in restraint use and pressure ulcers) and productivity … Japanese nursing homes using original facility-level panel data that includes the different robots used and the tasks performed … for non-regular care workers and monitoring robots. The share of specific tasks performed by robots increases with the …

Technological change, from the advent of robots to expanded trade opportunities, tends to create winners and losers … be implemented using evidence on the distributional impact of new technologies, such as robots and trade. Our second … on robots and trade, the magnitude of these taxes may decrease as the process of automation and globalization deepens and …

Do robots raise or lower economic well-being? On the one hand, they raise output and bring more goods and services into …

-level implications of robot adoption. Out of 55,390 firms in our sample, 598 have adopted robots between 2010 and 2015, but these firms … further document that the impact of robots on overall labor share is greater than their firm-level effects because robot …

Increased use of robots has roused concern about how robots and other new technologies change the world of work. Using … numbers of robots shipped to primarily manufacturing industries as a supply shock to an industry labor market, we estimate … wages. While the growth of robots in the 1996-2016 period of our data was too modest to be a major determinant of wages and …

massive rise in income inequality. This inequality can be reduced by raising marginal income tax rates and taxing robots. But … current tax system to include a lump-sum rebate. In our model, with the rebate in place, it is optimal to tax robots only when …