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

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 …

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

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 …

risk as an explanatory variable in a model of the union's choice between the strike and holdout threat. We find that strike … workers would have increased strike incidence from 1982-1989 by 3 percentage points, a 30 percent increase …

historians have agreed are pivotal in American history' during the period 1925-1937. Using information we collected on strike … negative share price reactions than other strikes. Also, our analysis shows that most of the news' in a strike seems to be … incorporated very early on in the strike. Our analysis strongly suggests that although the financial markets generally expected …

This study investigates the relationship between strike activity by nonunion public employees and unionization …. Examining the strike activity and unionization rates of some 600 nonunion municipal police departments from 1972 to 1978, this …

30-day readmission by 6.5% for patients admitted during a strike, with little change in patient demographics, disease …