This paper examines the labor market implications of investment in automation over the life cycle of ICT and robot … exposure to these automation technologies affects employment and wages across these different phases of their life cycle. We …

Communication Technologies (ICT) and robots, in 14 European countries between 2010 and 2018. To identify the causal effects of … strategy proposed by Acemoglu and Restrepo (2020). We find that the exposure to ICT and robots increased the shares of young … relatively low ICT-related skills; and for young men in routine manual occupations, who experienced substitutions by robots …

We study the effects of robot exposure on worker flows in 16 European countries. Overall, we find small negative …-country differences: in countries with lower labour costs, robot exposure had more positive effects on hirings and more negative effects … workers in countries with lower labour costs, robot exposure had a beneficial effect on transitions. Our results imply that …

We study the effects of robot exposure on worker flows in 16 European countries. Overall, we find small negative …-country differences: the effects of robot exposure are generally larger in absolute terms in countries with low or average levels of …-routine cognitive tasks. For young and old workers in countries with lower labour costs, robot exposure had a beneficial effect on …