A l'encontre:
Le grand bluff de la robotisation
10 June 2016
Numerous studies announce us that Automation is going to lead to a massacre of jobs. At the same time, the productivity slowdown worries official economists and Christiane Lagarde, President of the IMF, evokes even a ''new poor''. This article talks about this contradiction. ... Other contributions are, however, much less alarmist. Georg Graetz and Guy Michaels found ''no significant effect of industrial robots on overall employment''.
This article was published online by A l'encontre (France) on June 10, 2016
Link to article here
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