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 …

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

Recent evidence suggests that automation technologies entail a trade-off between productivity gains and employment …. It shows significant productivity and employment gains from automation in Indonesian manufacturing during the years 2008 … plausible reasons for the absence of this trade-off. First, it documents the presence of diminishing productivity returns to …

This work investigates the impact that the change in the exposure to robots had on the Italian local employment … dynamics over the period 2011-2018. A novel empirical strategy focusing on a match between occupations' activities and robots … employed as robot operators and in occupations deemed exposed to robots. In a framework consistently centered on workers' and …

displacement effect of robots is occupation biased but age neutral, whereas the reinstatement effect is age biased and benefits …

We investigate the impact of investment in automation-related goods on adopting and non-adopting firms in the Italian … exploiting import lumpiness in product categories linked to automation and AI technologies. We find a positive average adoption … effect on the adopters' employment and on the value-added and average wage, whereas sales and productivity increase after an …

minimal. Thus, concerns about the disruptive effects of robots on employment and the risk of widespread technological … unemployment may be exaggerated or not yet empirically supported. While this does not preclude that robots will be capable of …

minimal. Thus, concerns about the disruptive effects of robots on employment and the risk of widespread technological … unemployment may be exaggerated or not yet empirically supported. While this does not preclude that robots will be capable of …

In this paper we characterize workers’ vulnerability to automation in the near future in Argentina as a function of the … exposure to routinization of the tasks that they perform and the potential automation of their occupation. In order to do that … labor variables. We find that the ongoing process of automation is likely to significantly affect the structure of …

technologies: 1) automation technologies, 2) technologies that create new tasks, and 3) capital- or labor-augmenting technologies …. Automation technologies may either decrease or increase employment, whereas the other types of technological progress … unambiguously increase employment. Empirical estimates of the employment effects of automation are very different in different …