Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/246696 
Year of Publication: 
2020
Series/Report no.: 
ADB Economics Working Paper Series No. 619
Publisher: 
Asian Development Bank (ADB), Manila
Abstract: 
This paper examines the impact of industrial robots on jobs. We combine data on robot adoption and occupations by industry in 37 economies for the period 2005-2015. 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 economies, but not in emerging market and transition economies.
Subjects: 
employment
occupations
robots
tasks
JEL: 
E23
J23
O30
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Creative Commons License: 
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Document Type: 
Working Paper

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