Robots have radically changed the demand for skills and the role of workers in production. This phenomenon has replaced … occupations and sectors that require more social interaction and managing skills. This study examines how the exposure to robots … on the United States and find that in regions that were more exposed to robots, gender gaps in income and labor force …

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

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

This paper documents a positive relationship between labor-friendly institutions and investment in industrial robots in …. The relationship between institutions and robots is stronger in sunk cost-intensive industries, where producers are more …

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. …

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