variables). Besides institutional variables influencing external numerical flexibility (employment protection, unemployment …

We analyze the impact of robot adoption on employment composition using novel micro data on robot use of German … employment effects for the least routine-task intensive occupations and for young workers, the latter being better at adapting to … change. An event-study analysis for robot adoption confirms both predictions. We do not find decreasing employment for any …

sizeable proportion faces risk of being in disguised or dependent employment relationship, works informally, and has a poor …