Reason.com ? July 2017 issue:
Are robots going to steal our jobs?
6 June 2017
In 2015, economists Georg Graetz of Uppsala University and Guy Michaels of the London School of Economics analyzed the effects of industrial robots on employment in 17 different countries between 1993 and 2007. In contrast to the Acemoglu and Restrepo study, "We find a negative effect of robots on low-skilled workers' employment," says Michaels in an interview, "but no significant effect on overall employment." Their study also found that the increases in the number of robots boosted annual economic growth by 0.37 percent.
Related publications
‘Robots at work: the impact on productivity and jobs’, Georg Graetz, Guy Michaels, Article in CentrePiece Volume 20, Issue 1, Summer 2015