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

robots have reduced routine tasks. In sharp contrast, AI has reduced non-routine abstract tasks like information gathering …

-side adjustments and their role in shaping policy outcomes. I focus on the global market for industrial robots, a leading type of … targeting robots. …

This study explores the relationship between the adoption of industrial robots and workplace injuries. Using …

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 …

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. …

We use French data over the 1994-2013 period to study how imports of industrial robots affect firm-level outcomes …