firm size cutoff, although the results are sensitive to the type of technology and specification choices. We also document … composition of employment. Taken together, our findings cast doubts on the idea that ER discourages technology adoption. On the …

This work investigates the impact that the change in the exposure to robots had on the Italian local employment … dynamics over the period 2011-2018. A novel empirical strategy focusing on a match between occupations' activities and robots … employed as robot operators and in occupations deemed exposed to robots. In a framework consistently centered on workers' and …

this paper, we examine the potential effect of the rise of robotic technology on health. The results of the analysis … suggest that higher penetration of industrial robots in the local labor market is positively related to the health of the low …-skilled population. A ten percent increase in robots per 1,000 workers is associated with an approximately 10% reduction in the fraction …

-friendly institutions and investment in industrial robots in a sample of developing and advanced economies. Institutions explain a … substantial share of cross-country variation in automation. The relationship between institutions and robots is stronger in sunk …

industrial robots in nineteen Western countries over the 2006{2016 period. We find that high levels of statutory employment … firms to invest in industrial robots. We also find, however, that the correlation is positively mediated by the sectoral … levels of capital intensity, a hint that firms do resort to industrial robots as potential substitutes for workers to reduce …

specifications, and changes with respect to the measurement of the stock of robots. …