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We estimate the effects of robot adoption on firm-level and worker-level outcomes in the Netherlands using a large … value added and hours worked for robot-adopting firms and negative outcomes on competitors in the same industry. Our worker … earnings and employment rates, while other workers indirectly gain from robot adoption. We also find that the negative effects …
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market. Using aggregate data from Chinese prefectural cities (2000-2016) and individual longitudinal data from China, we find … a large negative impact of robot exposure on employment and wages of Chinese workers. Effects are concentrated in the …
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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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This paper investigates the presence of explicit labour-saving heuristics within robotic patents. It analyses innovative actors engaged in robotic technology and their economic environment (identity, location, industry), and identifies the technological fields particularly exposed to...
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We investigate the impact of robot adoption on electoral outcomes in 14 Western European countries, between 1993 and …-sample employment patterns in the region of residence. We instrument robot adoption in each country using the pace of robot adoption in … other countries. Higher exposure to robot adoption is found to increase support for nationalist and radicalright parties …
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Whereas there are recent papers on the effect of robot adoption on employment and wages, there is no evidence on how … robots affect non-monetary working conditions. We explore the impact of robot adoption on several domains of non … Working Conditions Survey. In order to deal with the possible endogeneity of robot deployment, we employ an instrumental …
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. Between 2010 and 2018, the growth in ICT capital played a much larger role than robot adoption in the changes in the labour …
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We study the effects of robot exposure on worker flows in 16 European countries between 1998-2017. Overall, we find … driver of cross-country differences: the effects of robot exposure are generally larger in absolute terms in countries with …, robot exposure had a beneficial effect on transitions. Our results imply that robot adoption increased employment and …
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In a model with robots, and automatable and complementary human tasks, we examine robot-labour substitutions and show …
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Does adoption of broadband internet in firms enhance labor productivity and increase wages? And is this technological change skill biased or factor neutral? We exploit rich Norwegian data with firm-level information on value added, factor inputs and broadband adoption to answer these questions....
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