This paper examines the labor market implications of investment in automation over the life cycle of ICT and robot …

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 …

intelligence. We exploit data provided by the Industrial Federation of Robotics as well as online job vacancy data on Germany, a …

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

discuss what standards are, how the process of standardization works, and how standards are related to induced innovation and …This paper aims to help policy makers identify how standards can contribute to the effective and cost …-saving technologies. This broad perspective enables us to identify interesting economic dimensions of standards, such as their …

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 …

We investigate the impact of robot adoption on electoral outcomes in 14 Western European countries, between 1993 and …-sample employment patterns in the region of residence. We instrument robot adoption in each country using the pace of robot adoption in … other countries. Higher exposure to robot adoption is found to increase support for nationalist and radical-right parties …