Is technology or trade driving increases in wage inequality? We propose that technology interacts with trade in the …-indifferences methods we find wages to decline by up to 5.2% annually over an eight-year post period. Our results suggest that a trade …

Recent evidence suggests that automation technologies entail a trade-off between productivity gains and employment …. It shows significant productivity and employment gains from automation in Indonesian manufacturing during the years 2008 … robot adoption. As a result, the benefits from automation could be particularly large for countries at early stages of …

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

wage levels and robot prices. We argue that, contrary to popular belief, the types of robots widely used in manufacturing … today do not imply a discontinuity in terms of automation and labour replacement possibilities. Instead, current robot … long time. In fact, these automation technologies arguably had their biggest employment impact generations ago, partially …

exposure to foreign robots. When all sectors are considered, the main results show that only foreign robot adoption, but not … find that the foreign robots’ effect on employment has mainly occurred in the agricultural and industrial machinery sectors …In the XXI century, the labor market effects of automation have gained significant attention from scholars and …

rising concerns over reshoring, our findings suggest that robots have yet promoted trade in intermediate inputs. …This paper studies the impact of robot adoption on firms' global sourcing activities. Using a rich panel dataset of … Spanish manufacturing firms, we show that robot adopting firms increased their intermediate input purchases from foreign and …