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. …

We study the effect of the adoption of automation technologies - industrial robots, and software and databases - on the … incidence of atypical employment in 13 EU countries between 2006 and 2018. We find that industrial robots significantly increase … software and databases. We also show that the higher trade union density mitigates the robots' impact on atypical employment …

robots have reduced routine tasks. In sharp contrast, AI has reduced non-routine abstract tasks like information gathering …

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 …

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