data from Germany with information on firm-level automation decisions. Our findings suggest that the impact of robots on …, robot adoption by firms endogenously responds to labor scarcity, alleviating potential displacement of existing workers …

. Employing longitudinal data from Germany, we exploit within-individual changes in robot exposure and document that a one … establishment-level data on injuries, we find that a one standard deviation increase in our commuting zone-level measure of robot … to robot penetration experience a significant increase in drug- or alcohol-related deaths and mental health problems …

staffing in Japanese nursing homes, using geographic variation in robot subsidies as an instrumental variable. We find that … robot adoption increases employment by augmenting the number of care workers and nurses on flexible employment contracts …, and decreases difficulty in staff retention. Robot adoption also reduces the monthly wages of regular nurses, consistent …

. Using a difference-in-differences design, we show that adopting a robot drives prostate cancer patients to the hospital. To …

We estimate the effects of robot adoption on firm-level and worker-level outcomes in the Netherlands using a large … value added and hours worked for robot-adopting firms and negative outcomes on competitors in the same industry. Our worker … earnings and employment rates, while other workers indirectly gain from robot adoption. We also find that the negative effects …

across U.S. manufacturing establishments. We find that robotics adoption and robot intensity (the number of robots per … we call Robot Hubs, have far more robots than one would expect even after accounting for industry and manufacturing … employment. We characterize these Robot Hubs along several industry, demographic, and institutional dimensions. The presence of …

longitudinal household data from China. We find that a one standard deviation increase in robot exposure led to a decline in labor … kept working, robot exposure increased the number of hours worked by 14%. These effects were concentrated among the less … on marital behavior, we document that robot exposure led to a small decline in the number of children (-1%). Finally, we …