We study how technology adoption and changes in global value chain (GVC) integration jointly affect labor shares and business function specialization in a sample of 14 manufacturing industries in 14 European countries in 1999-2011. Our main contribution is to highlight the indirect effect of...

Because robots are classified as capital, the replacement of human tasks with robots increases the capital–labor ratio, and the resulting change in the rate of return on capital affects international capital flows. Using panel data for Germany, a major robot-exporting country, this paper shows...

Is the productivity effect of robotics technology another example of the modern productivity paradox? This study adds to the debate on this question by providing firm-level evidence from China and exploring the underlying mechanisms. Focusing on a recent period from 2013 to 2017, we find that...

This paper investigates the effect of robot adoption on employment adjustment at the firm level in China. Using an instrument that exploits the source of the firm-level variation in robot adoption, we find that using industrial robots increases employment within firms, especially when focusing...

We analyze the impact of robot adoption on employment composition using novel micro data on robot use of German manufacturing plants linked with social security records and data on job tasks. Our task-based model predicts more favorable employment effects for the least routine-task intensive...

A typical Assembly Line Balancing (ALB) Problem aims to optimize the mass production process by assigning the tasks to stations. To deal with the high product variety and short product life cycles, robots are utilized in many production lines. Humans and collaborative robots share the same...

Rapid product changes and fierce global competition force companies to react quickly to market changes associated with dynamic capacity. This paper investigates how to design and reconfigure configurations of the single-product scalable reconfigurable robotic assembly line (RAL) over multiple...

Nowadays, several industrial companies and distribution centres have even more interest in implementing automated systems for warehousing operations due to new market developments such as e-commerce. Robotized and Automated Warehouse Systems are generally composed of a storage area, with...

Automation is a concept that has been introduced previously in organizations as a way to improve their processes. However, Robotic Process Automation is an emerging way to automate processes with software, which the industry calls robots. These robots perform repetitive and low-complexity tasks...