2021
DOI: 10.1093/jeea/jvab012
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The Adjustment of Labor Markets to Robots

Abstract: We use detailed administrative data to study the adjustment of local labor markets to industrial robots in Germany. Robot exposure, as predicted by a shift-share variable, is associated with displacement effects in manufacturing, but those are fully offset by new jobs in services. The incidence mostly falls on young workers just entering the labor force. Automation is related to more stable employment within firms for incumbents, and this is driven by workers taking over new tasks in their original plants. Sev… Show more

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“…1 Notably, the adjustment in other parts of the economy-for instance, when other sectors expand to absorb the labor freed from robot adoption-has received little attention so far. According to empirical evidence for Germany in Dauth et al (2021), industrial robots have changed the composition but not the aggregate size of employment, with job gains in services offsetting the negative impact on manufacturing employment. shows the evolution of the employment shares and labor compensation (as a share of value added (VA)) in the two sectors along with the stock of industrial robots.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…1 Notably, the adjustment in other parts of the economy-for instance, when other sectors expand to absorb the labor freed from robot adoption-has received little attention so far. According to empirical evidence for Germany in Dauth et al (2021), industrial robots have changed the composition but not the aggregate size of employment, with job gains in services offsetting the negative impact on manufacturing employment. shows the evolution of the employment shares and labor compensation (as a share of value added (VA)) in the two sectors along with the stock of industrial robots.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Otros estudios matizan que el impacto negativo de la tecnología sobre el empleo afecta solamente a los obreros u otros trabajadores poco cualificados, cuyas habilidades compiten de manera directa con aquellas de los robots: Humlum (2019), Acemoglu y Restrepo (2020) y, Graetz y Michaels (2018) para una muestra de empresas de 17 países distintos. Dauth et al (2019) demuestran que el impacto negativo de los robots puede afectar especialmente a los jóvenes, que se verían desplazados del sector industrial hacia el de servicios.…”
Section: Impacto De La Digitalización En La Industriaunclassified
“…En este sentido, al actuar como elementos complementarios, el incremento en la demanda de robots repercutiría positivamente sobre la demanda de profesionales técnicos (Humlum, 2019;Bonfiglioli et al, 2020). El cambio en la composición del empleo dentro de las empresas, en favor de los trabajos de mayor valor añadido implicaría a su vez una mayor estabilidad y calidad de los puestos de trabajo (Dauth et al, 2019 A su vez, existe una notable ambigüedad acerca del efecto de la automatización sobre los salarios en las empresas que adoptan tecnologías como la robótica. Mientras que Bessen et al (2019) no hallan efecto alguno, Humlum (2019) obtiene un incremento del salario medio pero una caída en los salarios de los obreros, resultado este último similar al obtenido por Dinlersoz y Wolf (2018).…”
Section: Impacto De La Digitalización En La Industriaunclassified
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