Countries compete internationally to attract investment from multinational enterprises (MNEs). Policy-makers hope that they bring superior technology to the host country and boost domestic activity. Because technology is often factor-biased, there are distributional effects to consider beyond...

What is the effect of labour market adjustment to automation on political participation? We study the consequences of the introduction of industrial robots across US commuting zones on voter turnout in US counties between 2000 and 2016. We first replicate prior results showing negative effects...

This paper investigates the effect of robot adoption on the accumulation of human capital in the US. Using a simple theoretical framework, we illustrate how advances in automation are expanding the share of individuals who enroll in college, as college-educated workers are less exposed to the...

This work discusses and empirically investigates the relationship between labor regulation and robotization. In particular, the empirical analysis focuses on the relationship between the discipline of workers' dismissal and the adoption of industrial robots in nineteen Western countries over the...

Robots have radically changed the demand for skills and the role of workers in production. This phenomenon has replaced routine and mostly physical work of blue collar workers, but it has also created positive employment spillovers in other occupations and sectors that require more social...

Putting the parts-to-picker idea into practice, the robotic mobile fulfillment system (RMFS) deploys robots to bring racks to stationary pickers so that the pickers focus only on order picking and the racks can be concurrently moved. An order sequencing and rack scheduling policy determines the...

Purpose: Industry 4.0 has increased the availability of real-time data in manufacturing systems, but scientific evidence about the value stemming from such data is still lacking in several fields. This paper studies data-driven approaches for the assignment of tasks to a fleet of mobile robots...

Purpose: Delivery robots promise to provide gains in logistics in many ways especially on short distances. However, there is a lack of orderly overview of requirements for their successful implementation. The aim of this paper is to generate a better understanding of how to implement delivery...

Purpose: Robotic process automation (RPA) refers to software robots (bots) that automate repetitive, rule-based tasks in a business process. In this study, the research questions regarding logistics applications are as follows: (1) What are suitable use cases for RPA in logistics? (2) Which...