In the past two decades, the thesis of the quot;rise of the regulatory state in Europequot; has been widely discussed in the literature because of changes in the role of the State that have recently occurred. On the one hand, the State retreats from sectors such as utilities, where it was highly...

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...