, 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 …

automation, health care, and energy, and correcting these distortions could have sizable welfare benefits …

We study the impact of broadband availability on firms’ total factor productivity (TFP) using German firm-level data … between 2010 and 2015. We adopt a control function approach to causally identify and separately estimate productivity for 46 … firms’ productivity in manufacturing, it significantly increases TFP in most service sectors. Yet, the size of the effect is …

In this paper we aim to analyze the productivity spillovers of foreign affiliated and domestic firms in Turkish … the existence of positive and significant productivity spillovers among the neighborhood firms. We also find that an … increase in the share of foreign affiliated firms in a given industry has positive impact on the productivity level of …

We study the impact of broadband availability on firms’ total factor productivity (TFP) using German firm-level data … between 2010 and 2015. We adopt a control function approach to causally identify and separately estimate productivity for 46 … firms’ productivity in manufacturing, it significantly increases TFP in most service sectors. Yet, the size of the effect is …

Micro-data on robots have been very sparse in Germany so far. Consequently, a dedicated section has been introduced in … the IAB Establishment Panel 2019 that includes questions on the number and type of robots used. This article describes the …

mechanisms through which import and export flows might affect productivity, technology diffusion and output growth. However, most … technology dissemination and R&D, is generally associated with higher supplier productivity. This is consistent with other … sources of evidence. However, the governance of the value chain appears to affect the productivity of suppliers in domestic …

machine-operating occupations, while high-skilled managers gain. In the aggregate, robots raise labor productivity but not … impact across industries and local labor markets in Germany. We find no evidence that robots cause total job losses, but they …. But this loss was fully offset by additional jobs in the service sector. Moreover, robots have not raised the displacement …

the skill-specific technological frontier subsequently show higher skill-specific productivity growth. For that, the …