, the International Federation of Robotics, EU KLEMS, and COMTRADE, we study the causal effect of industrial automation on … income inequality in the U.S. during 2010–2015. We exploit spatial and time variations in exposure to robots arising from … for top income fractiles. Therefore, industrial automation fuels income inequality and, particularly, top income …

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 … 23 percent of the overall decline of manufacturing employment in Germany over the period 1994-2014, roughly 275,000 jobs …

Whereas there are recent papers on the effect of robot adoption on employment and wages, there is no evidence on how … robots affect non-monetary working conditions. We explore the impact of robot adoption on several domains of non …