Using a panel of Spanish manufacturing firms covering the 1990-2017 period, I document new evidence about affiliates of multinational enterprises (MNEs): after being acquired, they exhibit a higher propensity to use robots, which leads to a reduction in their labor share. These effects are...

"Papers focus on problems associated with the implementation of neoliberal economic policies in Mexico under the Salinas Administration. Concern is with labor conditions, and the ability of firms to face foreign competition"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 57