ER is positively associated with robot usage. The presence of ER also correlates with the utilization of software … robots by exploiting rich information on the de facto role played by ER bodies in relation to well-defined decision areas of … representatives with dismissal procedures. Interestingly, the positive effect of ER on robot usage is driven by workplaces operating …

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 … a large negative impact of robot exposure on employment and wages of Chinese workers. Effects are concentrated in the …

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 …

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 … relatively low ICT-related skills; and for young men in routine manual occupations, who experienced substitutions by robots …

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 …

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 …

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 … occupational or age group but churning among low-skilled workers rises sharply. We conclude that the displacement effect of robots …

We study the effects of robot penetration on household income inequality in 14 European countries between 2006–2018, a … 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 …