and its heterogeneous effects on the labor market opportunities of men and women affected demographic behavior. We focus … participation declined, reducing the relative economic stature of men. Regions affected by intense robot penetration experienced …

literature to formalize the implications of robot technology. As for the first question, we establish robust evidence that ex …We study the implications of robot adoption at the level of individual firms using a rich panel data-set of Spanish … are the labor market effects of robot adoption at the firm level? (3) How does firm heterogeneity in robot adoption affect …

This paper examines the labor market implications of investment in automation over the life cycle of ICT and robot … effects within phases of the technology life cycle. We also find that the negative impact of ICT investment on employment is … driven by the phase of the cycle when investment decelerates (and the technology is more mature). The phases of the …

establishment-level data on injuries, we find that a one standard deviation increase in our commuting zone-level measure of robot … to robot penetration experience a significant increase in drug- or alcohol-related deaths and mental health problems …. Employing longitudinal data from Germany, we exploit within-individual changes in robot exposure and document that a one …

. 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 … identify the causal effects of robot adoption. Our results suggest that, while demand shocks generate a positive correlation …

We investigate the impact of robot adoption on electoral outcomes in 14 Western European countries, between 1993 and …-sample employment patterns in the region of residence. We instrument robot adoption in each country using the pace of robot adoption in … other countries. Higher exposure to robot adoption is found to increase support for nationalist and radical-right parties …

complement non-routine labor. I show that while it is optimal to distort robot adoption, robots may be either taxed or subsidized …. The robot tax exploits general-equilibrium effects to compress the wage distribution. Wage compression reduces income …-tax distortions of labor supply, thereby raising welfare. In the calibrated model, the optimal robot tax for the US is positive and …

We study how technology adoption and changes in global value chain (GVC) integration jointly affect labor shares and …&D business functions. We do not find any direct effects of robot adoption; robotization affects labor only indirectly, by …