multinational enterprises (MNEs): after being acquired, they exhibit a higher propensity to use robots, which leads to a reduction …

suggest that higher penetration of industrial robots in the local labor market is positively related to the health of the low …-skilled population. A ten percent increase in robots per 1,000 workers is associated with an approximately 10% reduction in the fraction …

well as traditional and automation capital (e.g. robots). Robots can substitute for routine labor. We show that both … rise. Although expected advances in automation technologies are able to mitigate or even circumvent output losses in the …

employment is at high risk of automation; slightly more than half if we only consider employment in the formal sector. We argue …Based on the methodology proposed by Frey and Osborne (2017), we use their estimates for the probability of automation … of occupations together with household survey data on the occupational distribution of employment to provide a risk …

This paper examines whether recent advancements in automation and robotics have affected intergenerational income … mobility. Using detailed data on all individuals and firms registered in Sweden, we study whether parental exposure to robots … at the occupational level and heterogeneous adoption of robots across industries and regions influence children …

, the International Federation of Robotics, EU KLEMS, and COMTRADE, we study the causal effect of industrial automation on … income inequality in the U.S. during 2010–2015. We exploit spatial and time variations in exposure to robots arising from … for top income fractiles. Therefore, industrial automation fuels income inequality and, particularly, top income …

-related aspects. Labor market pressures are felt around the globe, and robots and automation increasingly become reality. However …The world is changing rapidly. This paper describes key shifts and it discusses their likely impacts on employment …

between robot imports and employment, exogenous changes in automation lead to job losses. We also find that robot imports …We use French data over the 1994-2013 period to study how imports of industrial robots affect firm-level outcomes … increase productivity and the employment share of high-skill professions, but have a weak effect on total sales. The latter …

: (1) Robot use is relatively rare with only 1.55% German plants using robots in 2018. (2) The robot distribution is highly …