Faber, Marius; Sarto, Andrés; Tabellini, Marco - 2020
Migration has long been considered one of the key mechanisms through which labor markets adjust to economic shocks. In … this paper, we analyze the migration response of American workers to two of the most important shocks that have hit Western … reduction in manufacturing employment. Next, we present our main results, and show that, on average, robots caused a sizable …