Deng, Liuchun; Plümpe, Verena; Stegmaier, Jens - 2021 - This draft: January 2021
robots. However, controlling for plant size, we find that plant-level productivity has no, if not negative, impact on robot …Using a newly collected dataset of robot use at the plant level from 2014 to 2018, we provide the first microscopic … portrait of robotisation in Germany and study the potential determinants of robot adoption. Our descriptive analysis uncovers …