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on robots and trade, the magnitude of these taxes may decrease as the process of automation and globalization deepens and …
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We use a model of automation to show that with the current U.S. tax system, a fall in automation costs could lead to a … there is partial automation …
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finding might reflect the more rapid adoption of automation technologies in countries undergoing more pronounced demographic …
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expand their overall employment as well. However, this expansion comes at the expense of their competitors (as automation …
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The adoption of healthcare technology is central to improving productivity in this sector. To provide new evidence on how technology affects healthcare markets, we focus on one area where adoption has been particularly rapid: surgery for prostate cancer. Over just six years, robotic surgery grew...
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Migration is a key mechanism through which local labor markets adjust to economic shocks. In this paper, we analyze the migration response of American workers to two of the most important shocks that hit US manufacturing since the 1990s: Chinese import competition and the introduction of...
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Automation technologies, and robots in particular, are thought to be massively displacing workers and transforming the … future of work. We study firm investment in automation using cross-country data on robotization as well as administrative … data from Germany with information on firm-level automation decisions. Our findings suggest that the impact of robots on …
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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...
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Previous studies for developed countries show negative short-run impacts of automation on employment and earnings. In … this paper, we instead examine whether automation by a key trading partner can hurt workers in a developing country. We … specifically focus in Colombia's labor market, and how the automation in the U.S. impacts Colombian workers by replacing exports …
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In one of the first studies of service sector robotics using establishment-level data, we study the impact of robots on staffing in Japanese nursing homes, using geographic variation in robot subsidies as an instrumental variable. We find that robot adoption increases employment by augmenting...
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