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 …

–2017) vary across technology life cycle phases. Motivated by theories predicting shifting skill biases between early adoption and … regional technology exposure on employment and wages. While confirming that effects differ significantly across phases, we find … analyzing dynamics within specific technology life cycles to understand the heterogeneous short-term labor market adjustments …

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 …

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 …

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

value chain. Using a novel combination of data sources including firm-level export data, input-output linkages, and robot … adoption, we show contrasting implications for Southern firms. Increased exposure to robot adoption in the destination country … of exports reduces firm-level exports in case of robot adoption in the same industry. However, the opposite holds when …