sector. Service robots are tangible artefacts of automation technology in the service sector and are relatively well defined …The service sector is the current technological frontier of automation, thanks to recent advanced in artificial … on the variety and diffusion of service robots in the EU, in order to describe the state of automation in the service …

exploiting offshoring. It implies that automation (offshoring) may reduce (raise) employment by lengthening (shortening …We show, theoretically and empirically, that the effects of technological change associated with automation and … is that better matches enjoy a comparative advantage in exploiting automation and a comparative disadvantage in …

We analyze the impact of robot adoption on employment composition using novel micro data on robot use of German … change. An event-study analysis for robot adoption confirms both predictions. We do not find decreasing employment for any … employment effects for the least routine-task intensive occupations and for young workers, the latter being better at adapting to …

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 …

We juxtapose the effects of trade and technology on employment in U.S. local labor markets between 1990 and 2007. Labor …-manufacturing but no net employment decline. Trade impacts rise in the 2000s as imports accelerate, while the effect of technology … employment, particularly in manufacturing and among non-college workers. Labor markets susceptible to computerization due to …

We juxtapose the effects of trade and technology on employment in U.S. local labor markets between 1990 and 2007. Labor …-manufacturing but no net employment decline. Trade impacts rise in the 2000s as imports accelerate, while the effect of technology … employment, particularly in manufacturing and among non-college workers. Labor markets susceptible to computerization due to …

(IT) is associated with a lower share of employment in middle wage occupations and a higher share of employment in high … wage occupations. The decline in IT prices has no robust effect on the share of employment in the lowest paid occupations …, the share of employment in high wage occupations among females has increased more than among males with the fall in IT …

" using imports of intermediates embedding automation technologies and then test their impact on employment dynamics. We find … that automation spikes are positively correlated with preceding and contemporaneous growth in employment, mainly due to …This paper investigates how investment in automation-intensive goods impacts on worker flows at the firm level and …