anatomically modern humans in generating worldwide variations in the composition of human traits. This essay surveys this …

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

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

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 …

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

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 …

multinational ownership and robot adoption. The findings are consistent with a model of robot adoption choices by heterogeneous …-induced robot adoption explains about one-third of the overall impact of multinational activity on the labor share. …