The rise of robots and the fall of routine jobs
By G. D. de Vries, Elisabetta Gentile, S. Miroudot, K. Wacker. Labour Economics, 2020
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Abstract 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.
Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Sociology and Political Science
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- B. Seegmiller
- Caroline Chin
- David H. Autor
- Daron Acemoglu
- P. Restrepo
- John Van Reenen
- Guy Michaels
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- Caroline Chin
- David H. Autor
- Daron Acemoglu
- P. Restrepo
- Matthew Serfling
- Lawrence M. Kahn
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- New Frontiers: The Origins and Content of New Work, 1940–2018 (2022, background): “On industrial robotics, see Graetz and Michaels (2018), Chiacchio et al. (2018), Humlum (2019), Acemoglu et al. (2020b); Acemoglu and Restrepo (2020), De Vries et al. (2020), Bonfiglioli et al. (2020), Faber (2020), and Dauth et al. (2021).”