Communication Technologies (ICT) and robots, in 14 European countries between 2010 and 2018. To identify the causal effects of … strategy proposed by Acemoglu and Restrepo (2020). We find that the exposure to ICT and robots increased the shares of young … and prime-aged women in employment and the wage bills of particular sectors, but reduced the shares of older women and …

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 …

period marked by the rapid adoption of industrial robots. Automation reduced relative hourly wages and employment of more … exposed demographic groups, similarly to the results for the United States. Using robot-driven wage and employment shocks as … input to the EUROMOD microsimulation model, we find that automation had minor effects on income inequality. Household labour …

A handful of studies have investigated the effects of robots on workers in advanced economies. According to a recent … report from the World Bank (2016), 1.8 billion jobs in developing countries are susceptible to automation. Given the … inability of labor markets to adjust to rapid changes, there is a growing concern that the effect of automation and robotization …

, robot exposure had a beneficial effect on transitions. Our results imply that robot adoption increased employment and …

earnings and employment rates, while other workers indirectly gain from robot adoption. We also find that the negative effects …-level robot adoption. Overall, our results highlight the uneven effects of automation on the workforce. …

We offer an integrated explanation and empirical analysis of the polarization of U.S. employment and wages between 1980 … service occupations (employment polarization), experienced earnings growth at the tails of the distribution (wage polarization …

ideology scores from the Manifesto Project. We measure exposure to automation both at the regional level, based on the ex …-sample employment patterns in the region of residence. We instrument robot adoption in each country using the pace of robot adoption in …