data from Germany with information on firm-level automation decisions. Our findings suggest that the impact of robots on …, robot adoption by firms endogenously responds to labor scarcity, alleviating potential displacement of existing workers …

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 …

. Between 2010 and 2018, the growth in ICT capital played a much larger role than robot adoption in the changes in the labour …