between robot imports and employment, exogenous changes in automation lead to job losses. We also find that robot imports …. 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 …

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 …

robot tax that has featured prominently in the policy debate on automation and show that it could raise the capital stock …We analyze the long-run growth effects of automation in the canonical overlapping generations framework. While … automation implies constant returns to capital within this model class (even in the absence of technological progress), we show …

We investigate the impact of robot adoption on electoral outcomes in 14 Western European countries, between 1993 and … ideology scores from the Manifesto Project. We measure exposure to automation both at the regional level, based on the ex …-sample employment patterns in the region of residence. We instrument robot adoption in each country using the pace of robot adoption in …

We investigate the impact of robot adoption on electoral outcomes in 14 Western European countries, between 1993 and … ideology scores from the Manifesto Project. We measure exposure to automation both at the regional level, based on the ex …-sample employment patterns in the region of residence. We instrument robot adoption in each country using the pace of robot adoption in …