across U.S. manufacturing establishments. We find that robotics adoption and robot intensity (the number of robots per … we call Robot Hubs, have far more robots than one would expect even after accounting for industry and manufacturing … employment. We characterize these Robot Hubs along several industry, demographic, and institutional dimensions. The presence of …

concern about the future of jobs and wages. We analyze the effect of the increase in industrial robot usage between 1990 and … correlated with these other variables). According to our estimates, one more robot per thousand workers reduces the employment to …

finding might reflect the more rapid adoption of automation technologies in countries undergoing more pronounced demographic …

This paper describes the adoption of automation technologies by US firms across all economic sectors by leveraging a … tasks previously performed by labor. Consistent with the use of these technologies for automation, adopters have higher …

How should the government respond to automation? We study this question in a heterogeneous agent model that takes … borrowing is limited. We first show that these frictions result in inefficient automation. Firms fail to internalize that … where the government can tax automation but lacks redistributive tools to fully overcome borrowing frictions. The …

Using several sources, we construct a data set of robot purchases by French manufacturing firms and study the firm …-level implications of robot adoption. Out of 55,390 firms in our sample, 598 have adopted robots between 2010 and 2015, but these firms … account for 20% of manufacturing employment and value added. Consistent with theory, robot adopters experience significant …

on robots and trade, the magnitude of these taxes may decrease as the process of automation and globalization deepens and …

We argue theoretically and document empirically that aging leads to greater (industrial) automation, and in particular … older to middle-aged workers--is associated with greater adoption of robots and other automation technologies across … development of automation technologies in countries undergoing greater demographic change. Our directed technological change model …