We estimate the effects of robot adoption on firm-level and worker-level outcomes in the Netherlands using a large … value added and hours worked for robot-adopting firms and negative outcomes on competitors in the same industry. Our worker … earnings and employment rates, while other workers indirectly gain from robot adoption. We also find that the negative effects …

, particularly of repetitive processes, leading to higher quality products. The effects of robot use on export quality are estimated … data. Robot diffusion in (preexisting) foreign customers is used as an instrumental variable to predict robot adoption in … the home country-industry. The findings show that robot diffusion leads to increases in the quality of exported products …