This paper analyses data on industrial robots in European manufacturing sectors, focusing on their applications and characteristics, their distribution over countries and sectors and the main factors that are correlated with robot adoption such as wage levels and robot prices. We argue that,...

Inhalt: 1. Angebot und Nachfrage von weiblichen Arbeitskräften (Engelbrech, Gerhard: Beschäftigung und Arbeitslosigkeit von Männern und Frauen: Von der Arbeitsmarktkrise der 90er Jahre ins neue Jahrtausend. - Bach, Hans-Uwe: Erwerbstätigkeit, Arbeitszeit und Arbeitsvolumen von Männern und...

This article analyses shifts in employment structures in a selection of eight EU countries (the Czech Republic, Germany, Spain, France, Ireland, Italy, Romania and Sweden), as well as employment dynamics at the aggregate EU level. This is done for four periods, separated by the financial crisis...