The rise of robots and the fall of routine jobs
De Vries, Gaaitzen J. ; Gentile, Elisabetta ; Miroudot, Sébastien ; Wacker, Konstantin M.
2020
66
1-18
Technology
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.labeco.2020.101885
English
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"This paper examines the impact of industrial robots on jobs. We combine data on robot adoption and occupations by industry in thirty-seven countries for the period from 2005 to 2015. We exploit differences across industries in technical feasibility – defined as the industry's share of tasks replaceable by robots – to identify the impact of robot usage on employment. The data allow us to differentiate effects by the routine-intensity of employment. We find that a rise in robot adoption relates significantly to a fall in the employment share of routine manual task-intensive jobs. This relation is observed in high-income countries, but not in emerging market and transition economies."
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