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In this work, we test the employment impact of distinct types of innovative investments using a representative sample of Spanish manufacturing firms over the period 2002-2013. Our GMM-SYS estimates generate various results, which are partially in contrast with the extant literature. Indeed,...
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ORBIS (Bureau van Dijk) firm-level dataset. The results show that labour-saving patent holders comprise not only robots …
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This study explores the relationship between the adoption of industrial robots and workplace injuries using data from … driven by manufacturing firms (-28%), while we detect no impact on sectors that were less exposed to industrial robots …
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robots, this paper analysis the impact of robots on the wages of workers in the manufacturing sector. The results show that … industrial robots increase wages for high-skilled workers relative to low-skilled workers, hence robots increases the skill … or professional occupations. Overall, our results suggest that the introduction of industrial robots has a positive …
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This study builds on Autor and Dorn's (2013) classification of automatable work at the three-digit occupation code level to identify additional jobs that will be automatable in the next decade by drawing on patent data. Based on this new classification the study provides estimates of the share...
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We investigate the impact of robot adoption on electoral outcomes in 14 Western European countries, between 1993 and 2016. We employ both official election results at the district level and individual-level voting data, combined with party ideology scores from the Manifesto Project. We measure...
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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 …
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Robots have radically changed the demand for skills and the role of workers in production at an unprecedented pace … of robots on employment and wages. In this study, we examine how exposure to robots and its consequences on job stability … on regional industry specialization before the advent of robots combined with the growth of robot adoption by industry …
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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 …
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robots on the gender pay gap using data from 20 European countries. We show that robot adoption increases both male and …
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