employment effects of automation. Using data from US commuting zones, our results show that commuting zones that are more exposed … to industrial robots exhibit considerably larger reductions in both employment and wages when their labor markets …We examine the impact of labor market power on firms' adoption of automation technologies. We develop a model that …

management. Greater automation in establishments with ER does not seem to result from more adversarial employment relationships …The interplay between labour institutions and the adoption of automation technologies remains poorly understood … conditional correlations between the presence of employee representation (ER) and the use of automation technologies. We find that …