Bonfiglioli, Alessandra; Crinò, Rosario; Fadinger, Harald - 2021
between robot imports and employment, exogenous changes in automation lead to job losses. We also find that robot imports …We use French data over the 1994-2013 period to study how imports of industrial robots affect firm-level outcomes … increase productivity and the employment share of high-skill professions, but have a weak effect on total sales. The latter …