Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/231376 
Year of Publication: 
2021
Series/Report no.: 
IHS Working Paper No. 30
Publisher: 
Institut für Höhere Studien - Institute for Advanced Studies (IHS), Vienna
Abstract: 
In a seminal paper Graetz and Michaels (2018) find that robots increase labor productivity and TFP, lower output prices and adversely affect the employment share of low-skilled labor. We show that these effects hold only, when comparing hardly-robotizing with highly-robotizing sectors and collapse, when only the latter are analyzed. Controlling for demographic workforce variables reestablishes the productivity effects, but still rejects positive wage effects and skill-biased technological change. Additionally, we find no effects, when the investigation period is extended to the most recent data (2008-2015) and document non-monotonicity in one of the instruments, which calls the respective results into question.
Subjects: 
Robots
Productivity
Technological Change
JEL: 
E24
J24
J31
L60
O30
Creative Commons License: 
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Document Type: 
Working Paper

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