a column by David Klenert, Enrique Fernández-Macías and José-Ignacio Antón for VOX: CEPR’s Policy Portal
Opinion polls reveal that Europeans are greatly concerned about the economic consequences of advanced technologies, but our understanding of this relationship is still incomplete.
This column assesses the impact of one such technology – industrial robots – on employment in Europe over the last two decades. Combining industry-level data on employment with data on robot adoption, it finds that robot use is linked to a small but significant increase in employment.
Contrary to some previous studies, it does not find evidence of robots reducing the share of low-skill workers across Europe.
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As is usual you will find some very interesting and illuminating graphs.
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robots, robotisation, automation, job_destruction,
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