ER is positively associated with robot usage. The presence of ER also correlates with the utilization of software … robots by exploiting rich information on the de facto role played by ER bodies in relation to well-defined decision areas of … representatives with dismissal procedures. Interestingly, the positive effect of ER on robot usage is driven by workplaces operating …

concern is whether labor can win a 'race against the robots' and the longer-term concern is whether an artificial general …

robot use with a measure of workers' replaceability by robots, which is based on the tasks prevalent in industries before …Despite ubiquitous discussions of robots' potential impact, there is almost no systematic empirical evidence on their … economic effects. In this paper we analyze for the first time the economic impact of industrial robots, using new data on a …

In a model with robots, and automatable and complementary human tasks, we examine robot-labour substitutions and show … relationship for thirteen countries and find that countries with poor innovation capabilities substitute robots for workers much …-manufacturing robots and workers are stronger substitutes than in other manufacturing. …

manufacturing since the late 1990s - Chinese import competition and the introduction of industrial robots. Exploiting plausibly … exogenous variation in exposure across US local labor markets over time, we show that robots caused a sizable reduction in … negative employment spillovers outside manufacturing, caused by robots but not by Chinese imports, are an important mechanism …

We study the effects of robot exposure on worker flows in 16 European countries between 1998-2017. Overall, we find … driver of cross-country differences: the effects of robot exposure are generally larger in absolute terms in countries with …, robot exposure had a beneficial effect on transitions. Our results imply that robot adoption increased employment and …

stylized scenarios: the Jobless Economy (the robots take over 10% of jobs at every skill-level) and the Polarized Economy (the … robots take over 10% of the unskilled jobs while skilled jobs increase by 10%). We compare the social welfare performance of …

This paper studies the impact of robot adoption on firms' global sourcing activities. Using a rich panel dataset of … Spanish manufacturing firms, we show that robot adopting firms increased their intermediate input purchases from foreign and … domestic suppliers between 2006 and 2016. The effects of robots differ across sourcing strategies: the highest in foreign …