Using a newly collected dataset with plant-level information of robot use from 2014 to 2018, we provide the first … microscopic portrait of robotisation in Germany and study the potential determinants of robot adoption. Our descriptive analysis … uncovers five stylised facts concerning both extensive and, perhaps more importantly, intensive margin of plant-level robot use …

scale application of industrial robot in China would influence employment and productivity undoubtedly in this time period … countries, especially China, is widely discussed among economists and policy makers. China, as the largest industrial nation, is …. Based on China Employer-Employee Survey (CEES), which is a new longitudinal study of manufacturing firms and workers in …

This paper investigates the effect of robot adoption on employment adjustment in China. By using detailed Chinese firm … effect of robots and find strong support for the productivity effect that robot adopters gain productivity improvement and … human capital abundant regions. In addition, we find limited evidence for the intra-industry labor reallocation to robot …

of more than three million records in China, this study examines the impact of imported industrial robots on firm …

. Compared to other firms operating in the same 5-digit sector, robot importers are larger, more productive, and employ a higher … share of managers and engineers. Over time, robot import occurs after periods of expansion in firm size, and is followed by … identify the causal effects of robot adoption. Our results suggest that, while demand shocks generate a positive correlation …