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 …

We analyze the effect of automation and offshorability on unemployment duration and post-unemployment outcomes such as … wages and employment stability. Our rich administrative data allow us to evaluate the importance of providing unemployment … find re-employment, our results show that offshorability (but not automation) affects future job duration and wages …

In this paper we survey the recent empirical literature on the effects of offshoring on wage, employment and … displacement. We start with an overview of the measurement of offshoring, organizing our discussion around the three key elements … of offshoring: that it involves intermediate inputs for production (vs. final goods for consumption); that it involves …

exploiting offshoring. It implies that automation (offshoring) may reduce (raise) employment by lengthening (shortening …We show, theoretically and empirically, that the effects of technological change associated with automation and … offshoring on the labor market can substantially deviate from standard neoclassical conclusions when search frictions hinder …

rising concerns over reshoring, our findings suggest that robots have yet promoted trade in intermediate inputs. …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 …

risk of unemployment two years after the treatment. However, the effects are heterogeneous as to gender, age, education …

The present technological revolution, characterized by the pervasive and growing presence of robots, automation …

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 …

How do firms respond to technological advances that facilitate the automation of tasks? Which tasks will they automate … in middle wage jobs relative to both high and low wage jobs. Our theory explains recent and historical instances of job …