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Nos quitara el empleo un robot?

15 December 2015

Robots at work is a study by Georg Graetz of the University of Uppsala in Sweden and Guy Michaels at the London School of Economics that analyzes statistics from 1993 until 2007 of 14 industries in 17 developed countries. According to the study, industrial robots have had a ''substantial'' contribution to productivity and growth. The research also finds that fears that robots are destroying jobs on a large scale are unfounded, although there is evidence that they can lead to a reduction of hours of work for low specialization workers.

This article was published online by infoPLC.net (Spain) on December 15, 2015
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Related publications
Robots at work: the impact on productivity and jobs Georg Graetz and Guy Michaels. Article in CentrePiece, Volume 20, Issue 1 Summer 2015
'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

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