The interplay between labour institutions and the adoption of automation technologies remains poorly understood … conditional correlations between the presence of employee representation (ER) and the use of automation technologies. We find that … ER is positively associated with robot usage. The presence of ER also correlates with the utilization of software …

robots on the gender pay gap using data from 20 European countries. We show that robot adoption increases both male and …

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 …

on regional industry specialization before the advent of robots combined with the growth of robot adoption by industry … regions affected by intense robot penetration experienced a decrease in new marriages, and an increase in both divorce and …-of-wedlock births. Our findings are consistent with the hypothesis that the changes in labor markets triggered by robot adoption …

We study the effects of robot penetration on household income inequality in 14 European countries between 2006-2018, a … period marked by the rapid adoption of industrial robots. Automation reduced relative hourly wages and employment of more … exposed demographic groups, similarly to the results for the United States. Using robot-driven wage and employment shocks as …

. Between 2010 and 2018, the growth in ICT capital played a much larger role than robot adoption in the changes in the labour …