robots, and a productivity-enhancing reallocation of labor across firms, away from non-adopters, and toward adopters. … manufacturing firms over a 27-year period (1990-2016). We focus on three central questions: (1) Which firms adopt robots? (2) What …-ante larger and more productive firms are more likely to adopt robots, while ex-ante more skill-intensive firms are less likely to …

develop a methodology to separately account for robots in the total capital stock. Increases in upstream, forward GVC …

This paper documents a positive relationship between labor-friendly institutions and investment in industrial robots in … a sample of advanced economies. Institutions explain a substantial proportion of cross-country variation in automation …. The relationship between institutions and robots is stronger in sunk cost-intensive industries, where producers are more …

This paper examines the labor market implications of investment in automation over the life cycle of ICT and robot … these automation technologies and identify the phases of acceleration and deceleration in investment. We then examine how … exposure to these automation technologies affects employment and wages across these different phases of their life cycle. We …

We investigate the impact of investment in automation-related goods on adopting and non-adopting firms in the Italian … exploiting import lumpiness in product categories linked to automation and AI technologies. We find a positive average adoption … effect on the adopters' employment and on the value-added and average wage, whereas sales and productivity increase after an …

versus natives. We analyse and compare the effects of two different automation technologies: Industrial robots and artificial … identify how robots decrease the wage of migrants across all skill groups, while neither having a significant impact on the … migrants facing displacement effects, while natives might benefit from productivity and complementarity effects. In addition …

effects of these technologies, we find that smart agriculture, the internet of things, industrial and mobile robots, digital …

I study the optimal taxation of robots and labor income. In the model, robots substitute for routine labor and … complement non-routine labor. I show that while it is optimal to distort robot adoption, robots may be either taxed or subsidized … generates small welfare gains. As the price of robots falls, inequality rises but the robot tax and its welfare impact become …

of how automation and artificial intelligence could reshape society and the economy. However, technological shifts in …