This paper examines the impact of industrial robots on jobs. We combine data on robot adoption and occupations by … the industry’s share of tasks replaceable by robots—to identify the impact of robot usage on employment. The data allow us … to differentiate effects by the routine intensity of employment. We find that a rise in robot adoption relates …

displacement would decimate U.S. social safety net funding. To address these issues, Bill Gates and others have proposed a robot … tax. A robot tax, while elegant on its face, masks the underlying tension between innovation and employment tax policies …

robot adoption on the firm level export performance consists on combining propensity score matching (PSM) and difference in … probability, export sales and share of exports in total output and this result is robust to a wide array of checks. Robot adoption … channels suggests that the positive impact of robot adoption on exports could be driven by its positive effect on firm TFP and …