Automation and Employment over the Technology Life Cycle: Evidence from European Regions

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Listed: Fabien Petit

Tommaso Ciarli Maria Savona Registered: Abstract This paper examines the labor market implications of investment in automation over the life cycle of ICT and robot technologies from 1995 to 2017 in 163 European regions. We first identify major technological breakthroughs during this period for these automation technologies and identify the phases of acceleration and deceleration in investment. We then examine how exposure to these automation technologies affects employment and wages across these different phases of their life cycle. We find that the negligible long term impact of automation on employment conceals significant short term positive […]

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