"Through their influence on the cross-sectional distribution of productivity across firms and workers, job creation and … destruction likely have an impact on the rate at which aggregate productivity changes over time. However, the nature of this … effect is not, a priori, clear. While a broad consensus has emerged suggesting that job destruction enhances productivity by …

indirect effects of the rise of industrial robots and productivity via international value chains on various industrial … indicators, including employment and real value added. The paper thereby adds to the existing empirical work on the relationship … between technological change, employment and industrial growth by adding data on industrial robots while controlling for other …