Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/311983 
Year of Publication: 
2024
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 17544
Publisher: 
Institute of Labor Economics (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
We study the effect of the adoption of automation technologies – industrial robots, and software and databases – on the incidence of atypical employment in 13 EU countries between 2006 and 2018. We find that industrial robots significantly increase atypical employment share, mostly through involuntary part-time and involuntary fixed-term work. We find no robust effect of software and databases. We also show that the higher trade union density mitigates the robots' impact on atypical employment, while employment protection legislation appears to play no role. Using historical decompositions, we attribute about 1-2 percentage points of atypical employment shares to rising robot exposure.
Subjects: 
robots
automation
atypical employment
trade unions
JEL: 
J23
J51
O33
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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