Vox:
Estimating the impact of robots on productivity and employment
18 March 2015
Robots' capacity for autonomous movement and their ability to perform an expanding set of tasks have captured writers' imaginations for almost a century. Recently robots have emerged from the pages of science fiction novels into the real world, and discussions of their possible economic effects have become ubiquitous (see e.g. The Economist 2014, Brynjolfsson and McAfee 2014). But a serious problem inhibits these discussions - there has so far been no systematic empirical analysis of the effects that robots are already having.
This article was published online by Vox on March 18, 2015
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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