exposure to these automation technologies affects employment and wages across these different phases of their life cycle. We … find that the negligible long term impact of automation on employment conceals significant short term positive and negative … specialization in explaining the impact of automation on regional employment. …

multinational enterprises (MNEs): after being acquired, they exhibit a higher propensity to use robots, which leads to a reduction …

between robot imports and employment, exogenous changes in automation lead to job losses. We also find that robot imports …We use French data over the 1994-2013 period to study how imports of industrial robots affect firm-level outcomes … increase productivity and the employment share of high-skill professions, but have a weak effect on total sales. The latter …

ideology scores from the Manifesto Project. We measure exposure to automation both at the regional level, based on the ex …-sample employment patterns in the region of residence. We instrument robot adoption in each country using the pace of robot adoption in …

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 …

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

Robots have radically changed the demand for skills and the role of workers in production. This phenomenon has replaced … routine and mostly physical work of blue collar workers, but it has also created positive employment spillovers in other … occupations and sectors that require more social interaction and managing skills. This study examines how the exposure to robots …

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 … robots, and a productivity-enhancing reallocation of labor across firms, away from non-adopters, and toward adopters. …

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 … reinstatement of these workers, increasing their employment and wages. Using a quantitative model, we find that the lower prices of …

We examine how the adoption of digital automation technology affects labor demand, operations and profitability in the … context of the logistics industry. Our data covers 9,300 digital automation projects in a multinational company involving … service robots and machine learning-based software from 2019 to 2021, alongside fine-grained labor and operations data. To …