2020 RobotsandJobsEvidencefromUSLabo

• (Acemoglu & Restrepo, 2020) ⇒ Daron Acemoglu, and Pascual Restrepo. (2020). “Robots and Jobs: Evidence from US Labor Markets.” In: Journal of Political Economy, 128(6).

Subject Headings: Workers per Robot.

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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 using variation in exposure to robots - defined from industry-level advances in robotics and local industry employment. We estimate robust negative effects of robots on employment and wages across commuting zones. We also show that areas most exposed to robots after 1990 do not exhibit any differential trends before then, and robots' impact is distinct from other capital and technologies. One more robot per thousand workers reduces the employment-to-population ratio by 0.2 percentage points and wages by 0.42%.

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	Author	volume	Date Value	title	type	journal	titleUrl	doi	note	year
2020 RobotsandJobsEvidencefromUSLabo	Daron Acemoglu (1967-present) Pascual Restrepo			Robots and Jobs: Evidence from US Labor Markets						2020