In a seminal paper Graetz and Michaels (2018) find that robots increase labor productivity and TFP, lower output prices and adversely aect the employment share of low-skilled labor. We show that these effects hold only, when comparing hardly-robotizing with highly-robotizing sectors and...

This article presents an estimation of a stochastic frontier model using a translogarithmic production function to identify the impact of production factors - labor and capital - along with CO2 emissions and technical progress on the value added of the manufacturing sector in North American...