The interplay between labour institutions and the adoption of automation technologies remains poorly understood … conditional correlations between the presence of employee representation (ER) and the use of automation technologies. We find that … ER is positively associated with robot usage. The presence of ER also correlates with the utilization of software …

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 …

robots on the gender pay gap using data from 20 European countries. We show that robot adoption increases both male and …

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 …