We investigate how an increase in the robot intensity (the ratio of industrial robots over employment) affects the self …-reported mental health of workers in Germany. To do so, we combine individual mental health data from the German Socioeconomic Panel … individual-, time- and sectoral fixed effects, we find that an increase in robot intensity of 10% is associated with an average …

We study the impact of rising robot exposure on the careers of individual manufacturing workers, and the equilibrium … impact across industries and local labor markets in Germany. We find no evidence that robots cause total job losses, but they … do affect the composition of aggregate employment. Every robot destroys two manufacturing jobs. This accounts for almost …