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 …

We study the implications of robot adoption at the level of individual firms using a rich panel data-set of Spanish … are the labor market effects of robot adoption at the firm level? (3) How does firm heterogeneity in robot adoption affect … literature to formalize the implications of robot technology. As for the first question, we establish robust evidence that ex …

robotization in Germany and study the correlates of robot adoption. Our descriptive analysis uncovers five stylized facts: (1 …) Robot use is relatively rare. (2) The distribution of robots is highly skewed. (3) New robot adopters contribute … substantially to the recent robotization. (4) Robot users are exceptional. (5) Heterogeneity in robot types matters. Our regression …

This paper examines the bilateral relationship between the robot adoption and the age characteristics of the employment … is affected negatively from robotization, whereas there is a positive impact of robot adoption on old workers. Evidence …

Using a newly collected dataset of robot use at the plant level 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: (1 …