between robot imports and employment, exogenous changes in automation lead to job losses. We also find that robot imports … increase productivity and the employment share of high-skill professions, but have a weak effect on total sales. The latter … result suggests that productivity gains from automation may not be entirely passed on to consumers in the form of lower …

positive effect on firms' employment growth rate …

The employment effect of large firms on small firms has rarely been studied. Using establishment data in Japan, this … sell the top 1% of volume and hire many employees simultaneously, and their impact on small firms’ employment growth in the … important than skill or knowledge spillovers through those firms’ job rotation and co-workers for small firms’ employment growth …