The evolving impact of robots on jobs

J Chung, YS Lee - ILR Review, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
The authors examine the impact of industrial robots on US labor markets between 2005 and
2016. Because some industries adopt robots more intensively, growth in robot stocks more …

Robots and jobs: Evidence from US labor markets

D Acemoglu, P Restrepo - Journal of political economy, 2020 - journals.uchicago.edu
We study the effects of industrial robots on US labor markets. We show theoretically that
robots may reduce employment and wages and that their local impacts can be estimated …

Is an army of robots marching on Chinese jobs?

O Giuntella, T Wang - 2019 - papers.ssrn.com
A handful of studies have investigated the effects of robots on workers in advanced
economies. According to a recent report from the World Bank (2016), 1.8 billion jobs in …

Heterogeneous effects of robots on employment in agriculture, industry, and services sectors

W Sun, Z Zhang, Y Chen, F Luan - Technology in Society, 2023 - Elsevier
This paper investigates how the impact of robots on employment differs across various
sectors. Based on country-level data, our analysis reveals a U-shaped relationship between …

[PDF][PDF] Adjusting to robots: Worker-level evidence

W Dauth, S Findeisen, J Suedekum… - Opportunity and Inclusive …, 2018 - diw.de
We estimate the effect of industrial robots on employment, wages, and the composition of
jobs in German labor markets between 1994 and 2014. We find that the adoption of …

Robots at work

G Michaels, G Graetz - 2015 - ideas.repec.org
Despite ubiquitous discussions of robots? potential impact, there is almost no systematic
empirical evidence on their economic effects. In this paper we analyze for the first time the …

Robots at work? Pitfalls of industry‐level data

K Bekhtiar, B Bittschi, R Sellner - Journal of Applied …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
In their seminal paper, Graetz and Michaels (2018) find that robots increase productivity,
lower output prices, and adversely affect the share of low‐skilled labor. We demonstrate that …

Robot adoption and labor demand: A new interpretation from external competition

Q Zhang, F Zhang, Q Mai - Technology in Society, 2023 - Elsevier
Recent research has shown that robotics has increased economic efficiency in several
areas. However, there is no consensus on whether the robot adoption in production should …

Robots and workers: Evidence from the Netherlands

D Acemoglu, HRA Koster, C Ozgen - 2023 - nber.org
We estimate the effects of robot adoption on firm-level and worker-level outcomes in the
Netherlands using a large employer-employee panel dataset spanning 2009-2020. Our firm …

The impact of robots in Latin America: Evidence from local labor markets

I Brambilla, A César, G Falcone, L Gasparini - World Development, 2023 - Elsevier
We study the effect of robots on labor markets in Argentina, Brazil, and Mexico, the major
robot users in Latin America, during the period 2004–2016. We exploit spatial and time …