. Using a difference-in-differences design, we show that adopting a robot drives prostate cancer patients to the hospital. To …

import competition and the introduction of industrial robots. Exploiting plausibly exogenous variation in exposure across US … manufacturing sector, only robots led to a sizable decline in population size. We provide evidence that negative employment … spillovers outside manufacturing, caused by robots but not by Chinese imports, can explain the different migration responses. We …

Automation technologies, and robots in particular, are thought to be massively displacing workers and transforming the … data from Germany with information on firm-level automation decisions. Our findings suggest that the impact of robots on … firms has been limited. First, investment in robots is small and highly concentrated in a few industries, accounting for …

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 …

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 …

from Colombia for cheaper robot-made U.S. products. We use employer-employee matched data from the Colombian social … security records combined with data on U.S. exposure to robots in different sectors from 2011 to 2016 to examine if robots in … the U.S. are displacing workers in Colombia. We find that U.S. robots decrease employment and earnings for Colombian …