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 …

Numeric Control machines have increased the risk of technology-induced displacement of labour in the garment sector. This … paper examines the technical and economic feasibility of automation in the Indian garment sector and its likely impact on … to the economic feasibility, automation is going to be restricted to a few garment production processes only. Paper …

employment at a high risk of automation, we use detailed employment data and automatability estimates (or substitutional …The aim of this paper is to examine the potential impacts of automation and digitalisation on the Slovak labour market … Matthes (2018), and Mihaylov and Tijdens (2019). In 2019, depending on the approach taken, the share of employment in Slovakia …

. Assuming that some of the rents from labor technology will filter back into the economy it is expected that other occupations …

negative employment spillovers outside manufacturing, caused by robots but not by Chinese imports, are an important mechanism … indirectly exposed industries - can explain their disparate employment effects outside manufacturing and, in turn, the …

robotics, which covers key aspects of industrial and service robotics, discuss technology foresight insights and inter …-linkages to robotics, and identify three critical technology roadmaps: (1) the technological future of robotics, (2 …

We analyze the effects of declining population growth on automation. Theoretical considerations imply that countries … with lower population growth introduce automation technologies faster. We test the theoretical implication on panel data … 1% increase in population growth is associated with an approximately 2% reduction in the growth rate of robot density …

We assess the long-run growth effects of automation in the overlapping generations framework. Although automation …. The reason is that automation suppresses wage income, which is the only source of investment in the overlapping … generations model. Our result stands in sharp contrast to the representative agent setting with automation, where sustained long …

This paper investigates the effect of robot adoption on employment adjustment in China. By using detailed Chinese firm …-level data and addressing endogeneity, we find that using industrial robots increases employment within firms, especially when … focusing on the employment of high-educated and high-skilled individuals. We further analyze the mechanisms underlying the …