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 …

exposures to industry-level stocks of robots are derived from their initial industry-employment composition. Foreign automation …This paper investigates several channels through which automation affects an emerging economy. Building on a Ricardian … model of trade with sectoral linkages and a two-stage production technology, in which robots replace labor in certain tasks …

This paper investigates the effect of innovation on employment growth at the firm level in South Africa. Innovation is …, the link between innovation and employment is more ambiguous. R&D targeted towards product innovation has been typically … associated with employment growth. Process innovations may have a positive effect, but also have the potential to reduce the …