Regimes of robotization in Europe

Jelena Reljic, Valeria Cirillo and Dario Guarascio

Economics Letters, 2023, vol. 232, issue C

Abstract: This work analyses the impact of robots on employment testing for the presence of different robotization regimes. Focusing on European manufacturing industries, we find that robot adoption positively affects total employment. Heterogeneous patterns are detected across both countries and occupational groups, however. The labour-friendly impact of robotization is detected only in core and service-oriented countries and for those at the top of the occupational structure (i.e. managers and technicians). In turn, peripheral countries and manual workers do not seem to benefit at all from robotization.

Keywords: Robotization; Employment; Europe (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E24 J23 J24 O33 O52 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2023.111320

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