This work investigates the impact that the change in the exposure to robots had on the Italian local employment … employed as robot operators and in occupations deemed exposed to robots. In a framework consistently centered on workers' and … robots' activities, rather than on their industries of employment, the analysis reveals for the first time reinstatement …

of robot adoption on employment in Europe. Combining industry-level data on employment by skill-type with data on robot … employment. Contrary to some previous studies, we do not find evidence of robots reducing the share of low-skill workers across … adoption and using different sets of fixed-effects techniques, we find that robot use is linked to an increase in aggregate …

effect of robots on employment outcomes in Italy (second European economy for robot stock) from the early 1990s up to 2016 …Increased robot diffusion has raised concerns for its possible negative impact on employment. Following an empirical … manufacturing employment, but its statistical significance is weak or absent once concurrent trends relating to trade and ICT are …

At the present stage of automation and robotization in the mining and manufacturing industries, there is a decrease in … forward a hypothesis about a negative correlation between employment in these industries and the equipment of production … facilities with industrial robots. To confirm it, an econometric analysis of the impact of robotization on the share of employed …