From Immigrants to Robots: The Changing Locus of Substitutes for Workers
Using numbers of industrial robots shipped to primarily manufacturing industries as a supply shock to an industry labor market, we estimate that an additional robot reduces employment by roughly two to three workers overall and by three to four workers when robots are likely to be good substitutes f...
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Language: | English |
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Russell Sage Foundation
2019-11-01
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Series: | RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences |
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Online Access: | https://www.rsfjournal.org/content/5/5/22 |