CEP News: The Wall Street Journal: Robots may look like job-killers, but it's hard to see in the numbers

The Wall Street Journal:
Robots may look like job-killers, but it's hard to see in the numbers

30 April 2015

There's no relationship visible in the numbers between the change in factory employment and robot use, says Mark Muro, senior fellow at the Brookings Institution. In a blog post, he and Brookings colleague Scott Andes took a recent report by two European economists that found robots enhanced productivity in 17 countries in recent decades and checked to see how job losses stacked up among some of the biggest robot users.

This article was published by the Wall Street Journal on April 30, 2015
Link to article here

Related publications
'Robots at Work', Georg Graetz and Guy Michaels, Centre for Economic Performance Discussion Paper No.1335, March 2015

Related links
Georg Graetz webpage
Guy Michaels webpage
Labour Markets Programme webpage

The Wall Street Journal:Robots may look like job-killers, but it's hard to see in the numbers

The Wall Street Journal:
Robots may look like job-killers, but it's hard to see in the numbers