We analyze how and through which channels wage inequality is affected by the rise in automation and robotization in the … different individual, firm and industry characteristics with data on industrial robots and automation probabilities of … evidence that besides personal characteristics like age and education the rise in automation and robotization contributes …

-cost) firms and laggard (high-cost) firms increase productivity when automating but that only laggard firms hire more automation …-level automation workforce probabilities, which reveal the extent to which a firms' workforce can be replaced by new AI and robotic …