Bonfiglioli, Alessandra; Crinò, Rosario; Fadinger, Harald - 2021
We use French data over the 1994-2013 period to study how imports of industrial robots affect firm-level outcomes …. Compared to other firms operating in the same 5-digit sector, robot importers are larger, more productive, and employ a higher … share of managers and engineers. Over time, robot import occurs after periods of expansion in firm size, and is followed by …