Stop worrying and love the robot: An activity-based approach to assess the impact of robotization on employment dynamics
Caselli, Mauro Fracasso, Andrea Scicchitano, Sergio
Traverso, Silvio Tundis, Enrico
Caselli, Mauro
Fracasso, Andrea
Traverso, Silvio
Tundis, Enrico
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This work investigates the impact that the change in the exposure to robots had on the Italian local employment dynamics over the period 2011-2018. A novel empirical strategy focusing on a match between occupations’ activities and robots’ applications at a high level of disaggregation makes it possible to assess the impact of robotization on the shares of workers employed as robot operators and in occupations deemed exposed to robots. In a framework consistently centered on workers’ and robots’ activities, rather than on their industries of employment, the analysis reveals for the first time reinstatement effects among robot operators and heterogeneous results among exposed occupations.
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2021
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Robots, Employment, Activities, Tasks, Robot applications
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Caselli, Mauro, Andrea Fracasso, Sergio Scicchitano, Silvio Traverso, Silvio, Enrico Tundis. “Stop worrying and love the robot: An activity-based approach to assess the impact of robotization on employment dynamics". GLO Discussion Paper No. 802. 2021.