Increased use of robots has roused concern about how robots and other new technologies change the world of work. Using … numbers of robots shipped to primarily manufacturing industries as a supply shock to an industry labor market, we estimate … that an additional robot reduces employment and wages in an industry by roughly as much as an additional 2 to 3 workers and …

characterize the optimal tax system in this model. We find that it is optimal to tax robots while the current generations of …, optimal robot taxes are zero …

Technological change, from the advent of robots to expanded trade opportunities, tends to create winners and losers … be implemented using evidence on the distributional impact of new technologies, such as robots and trade. Our second … on robots and trade, the magnitude of these taxes may decrease as the process of automation and globalization deepens and …

Do robots raise or lower economic well-being? On the one hand, they raise output and bring more goods and services into …

As robots and other computer-assisted technologies take over tasks previously performed by labor, there is increasing … concern about the future of jobs and wages. We analyze the effect of the increase in industrial robot usage between 1990 and … 2007 on US local labor markets. Using a model in which robots compete against human labor in the production of different …

-level implications of robot adoption. Out of 55,390 firms in our sample, 598 have adopted robots between 2010 and 2015, but these firms … further document that the impact of robots on overall labor share is greater than their firm-level effects because robot …Using several sources, we construct a data set of robot purchases by French manufacturing firms and study the firm …