physical tasks across 20 European countries, which we combine with industry-level robotization exposure. Our conceptual … framework builds on the insight that robotization simultaneously replaces, creates, and modifies workers' tasks and studies how … interesting tasks. Instead, robotization makes workers' tasks more routine, while diminishing the opportunities for cognitively …

provides information on nature and content of the tasks. First, by employing a non-parametric method (the Relative Distribution …

aspects except competence. We also examine the moderating role of routine and cognitive tasks, skills and education, and age … differences emerge for autonomy. For instance, workers with repetitive and monotonous tasks drive the negative effects of … robotization on autonomy, while social tasks and working with computers - a tool that provides worker independence - help workers …

What drives investment in automation technologies? This paper documents a positive relationship between labor … substantial share of cross-country variation in automation. The relationship between institutions and robots is stronger in sunk … invest in automation is to thwart rent appropriation by labor. As a consequence, policies aimed at supporting workers …

Will low-skilled workers be replaced by automation? To answer this question, we set up a search and matching model that … features two skill types of workers and includes automation capital as an additional production factor. Automation capital is a … show that the accumulation of automation capital decreases the labor market tightness in the low-skilled labor market and …

to substitute the labour input. This measure allows to obtain fine-grained information on tasks and occupations according …