The present technological revolution, characterized by the pervasive and growing presence of robots, automation … updated picture of main empirical evidence on the relationship between new technologies and employment both in terms of …

find that on average employment shares have increased in occupations more exposed to AI. This is particularly the case for … Technological Change theory. While there exists heterogeneity across countries, only very few countries show a decline in employment … shares of occupations more exposed to AI-enabled automation. Country heterogeneity for this result seems to be linked to the …

Different empirical studies suggest that the structure of employment in the U.S. and Great Britain tends to polarise … until 2008. Using representative panel data, we show that this trend corresponds to a task bias in employment changes …: routine jobs have lost relative employment, especially in predominantly manual occupations. We further provide the first …

-sample employment patterns in the region of residence. We instrument robot adoption in each country using the pace of robot adoption in …We investigate the impact of robot adoption on electoral outcomes in 14 Western European countries, between 1993 and … ideology scores from the Manifesto Project. We measure exposure to automation both at the regional level, based on the ex …

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

are those that are the safest from automation. We also find that jobs that require 'people' engagement interacted with …

model of robot adoption in which robots and low-skill workers are substitutes. As many advanced economies are facing labor …Changes in the supply of low-skill labor may affect robot adoption by firms. We test this hypothesis by exploiting an … of migrants in a municipality leads to fewer imports of robots at the firm-level. We rationalize this finding in a simple …

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 … is that better matches enjoy a comparative advantage in exploiting automation and a comparative disadvantage in …

We investigate the role of factor-priced-induced innovation in mediating the employment impact of expanding production …

This paper explores the employment impact of innovation activity, taking into account both R&D expenditures and … ETC is included as a proxy for innovation activities. Moreover, the positive employment impacts of innovation activities …