Dauth, Wolfgang; Findeisen, Sebastian; Südekum, Jens; … - 2017
do affect the composition of aggregate employment. Every robot destroys two manufacturing jobs. This accounts for almost … 23 percent of the overall decline of manufacturing employment in Germany over the period 1994-2014, roughly 275,000 jobs … cost of lower wages. The negative impact of robots on individual earnings arises mainly for medium-skilled workers in …