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 …

&D business functions. We do not find any direct effects of robot adoption; robotization affects labor only indirectly, by …

a sample of advanced economies. Institutions explain a substantial proportion of cross-country variation in automation … vulnerable to holdup. This suggests that automation is used by producers as a tool to thwart rent appropriation by labor. …

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 … labor cost increased after the adoption of digital automation technology, attributable to increased labor demand and more …

participation declined, reducing the relative economic stature of men. Regions affected by intense robot penetration experienced …

between robot imports and employment, exogenous changes in automation lead to job losses. We also find that robot imports …. 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 …

We investigate the impact of robot adoption on electoral outcomes in 14 Western European countries, between 1993 and … 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 …

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 … literature to formalize the implications of robot technology. As for the first question, we establish robust evidence that ex …