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

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 …

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 …

result suggests that productivity gains from automation may not be entirely passed on to consumers in the form of lower …We use French data over the 1994-2013 period to study how imports of industrial robots affect firm-level outcomes … between robot imports and employment, exogenous changes in automation lead to job losses. We also find that robot imports …

ideology scores from the Manifesto Project. We measure exposure to automation both at the regional level, based on the ex …

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 …

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 …

Robots have radically changed the demand for skills and the role of workers in production. This phenomenon has replaced … occupations and sectors that require more social interaction and managing skills. This study examines how the exposure to robots … on the United States and find that in regions that were more exposed to robots, gender gaps in income and labor force …

What is the effect of robots and tools on employment and inequality? Using natural language processing and an … instrumental variable approach, we discover that robots have led to a sizable decrease in the employment and wages of low … robots and tools over the last 20 years have reduced inequality and increased welfare without a significant effect on …