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 … panel of industries in 17 countries from 1993-2007. We find that industrial robots increased both labor productivity and …

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 …

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 …

domestic suppliers between 2006 and 2016. The effects of robots differ across sourcing strategies: the highest in foreign … reducing the concentration of purchases from suppliers and the increase in intermediate input purchases is related to quality … rising concerns over reshoring, our findings suggest that robots have yet promoted trade in intermediate inputs. …

A handful of studies have investigated the effects of robots on workers in advanced economies. According to a recent … robots in developing countries. In this paper we analyze the effects of exposure to industrial robots in the Chinese labor … that exposure to robots affected internal mobility and increased the number of labor-related strikes and protests. …

robots by exploiting rich information on the de facto role played by ER bodies in relation to well-defined decision areas of …