robots, this paper analysis the impact of robots on the wages of workers in the manufacturing sector. The results show that … industrial robots increase wages for high-skilled workers relative to low-skilled workers, hence robots increases the skill … or professional occupations. Overall, our results suggest that the introduction of industrial robots has a positive …

robot use with a measure of workers' replaceability by robots, which is based on the tasks prevalent in industries before ….37 percentage points. We also find that robots increased both wages and total factor productivity. While robots had no significant …Despite ubiquitous discussions of robots' potential impact, there is almost no systematic empirical evidence on their …

ORBIS (Bureau van Dijk) firm-level dataset. The results show that labour-saving patent holders comprise not only robots …

Communication Technologies (ICT) and robots, in 14 European countries between 2010 and 2018. To identify the causal effects of … strategy proposed by Acemoglu and Restrepo (2020). We find that the exposure to ICT and robots increased the shares of young … relatively low ICT-related skills; and for young men in routine manual occupations, who experienced substitutions by robots …

knowledge sector is bounded, as productivity increases, the economy moves from a "Solovian zone" where wages increase with … bliss point can only be made better-off by an increase in diversity. If wages are set by monopoly unions rather than set … employment in the material goods sector. International trade may reduce wages in poor countries and increase them in rich …

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 …

to industrial robots. Applying random effects within-between regression to a pseudo-panel of observations from 28 …-educated workers remain constant in strongly unionised countries with increasing exposure to robots, whereas in weakly unionised … countries, low-educated unemployment declines with robot exposure but from a higher starting point. Our results point to unions …

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 …