What drives investment in automation technologies? This paper documents a positive relationship between labor … substantial share of cross-country variation in automation. The relationship between institutions and robots is stronger in sunk … invest in automation is to thwart rent appropriation by labor. As a consequence, policies aimed at supporting workers …

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between robot imports and employment, exogenous changes in automation lead to job losses. We also find that robot imports … result suggests that productivity gains from automation may not be entirely passed on to consumers in the form of lower …