their productivity and profit, and for workers, robots could promote their wages. To the best of our knowledge, this paper …The race between industrial robots and human, not only for the developed countries, but also for emerging market … scale application of industrial robot in China would influence employment and productivity undoubtedly in this time period …

To rationalize a substantial income share of labor despite progressive task automation over the centuries, we present a … sophistication. Automation of more sophisticated goods requires capital of increasing quality. Quality capital remains scarce along …

review of recent research carried out regarding the expected effects of automation on employment levels and performs diverse … that jobs lost to automation technology currently match the jobs being created, thereby resulting in a negligible overall …

This paper explores the heterogeneous effects of automation technologies on employment rate with respect to proportion … of skilled workers, represented by regions from different income groups. Automation, as measured by both robotic … penetration and ICT trade volumes, are replacing US labour force. Exploiting variations across US commuting zones with different …

created. In a static version where capital is fixed and technology is exogenous, automation reduces employment and the labor … capital accumulation and the direction of research towards automation and the creation of new tasks. If the long-run rental … rate of capital relative to the wage is sufficiently low, the long-run equilibrium involves automation of all tasks …

automation, health care, and energy, and correcting these distortions could have sizable welfare benefits …

older to middle-aged workers — is associated with greater adoption of robots and other automation technologies across … from country industry variation in the adoption of robots. Our model also implies that the productivity implications of …We argue theoretically and document empirically that aging leads to greater (industrial) automation, and in particular …

). We argue that the factors behind the pre-crisis growth model of the region - skilled yet affordable labour force, foreign … direct investment, imports of productivity-enhancing technology - are petering out, and are yet to be substituted. We propose … and a strong focus on skills, labour and social inclusion to leave the middle income trap behind for good and to boost …

We study the impact of broadband availability on firms’ total factor productivity (TFP) using German firm-level data … between 2010 and 2015. We adopt a control function approach to causally identify and separately estimate productivity for 46 … firms’ productivity in manufacturing, it significantly increases TFP in most service sectors. Yet, the size of the effect is …