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 …

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 …

in the economy? To answer these important questions, we combine novel patent-based measures of AI and robot exposure with …

The diffusion of automation technology raises questions about the future of work, leading to calls for policy … interventions. The ongoing debate centers on the decisions made by technology adopters. In this paper, I study supply … automation technology, where a few multinational enterprises (MNEs) dominate sales. To evaluate how these MNEs respond to policy …

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 …

financial markets. Two different methods are used: (i) a trading robot approach to examine whether or not there is such an …

profit opportunities by replicating the actions of traders. Specifically, the analysis is based on a trading robot which …

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 …