Faber, Marius; Sarto, Andrés; Tabellini, Marco - 2021
manufacturing since the late 1990s - Chinese import competition and the introduction of industrial robots. Exploiting plausibly … exogenous variation in exposure across US local labor markets over time, we show that robots caused a sizable reduction in … negative employment spillovers outside manufacturing, caused by robots but not by Chinese imports, are an important mechanism …