import competition and the introduction of industrial robots. Exploiting plausibly exogenous variation in exposure across US … manufacturing sector, only robots led to a sizable decline in population size. We provide evidence that negative employment … spillovers outside manufacturing, caused by robots but not by Chinese imports, can explain the different migration responses. We …

Automation technologies, and robots in particular, are thought to be massively displacing workers and transforming the … data from Germany with information on firm-level automation decisions. Our findings suggest that the impact of robots on … firms has been limited. First, investment in robots is small and highly concentrated in a few industries, accounting for …

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 …

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 …

security records combined with data on U.S. exposure to robots in different sectors from 2011 to 2016 to examine if robots in … the U.S. are displacing workers in Colombia. We find that U.S. robots decrease employment and earnings for Colombian … workers in those sectors of local labor markets that have high levels of automation -measured as robots per thousand workers …

In one of the first studies of service sector robotics using establishment-level data, we study the impact of robots on … with reduced burden of care. Our findings suggest that the impact of robots may not be detrimental to labor and may remedy …

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 …