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Robots at work: the impact on productivity and jobs

Georg Graetz and Guy Michaels


Robots may seem dangerous not only to cinema action heroes but also to the average manufacturing worker.To assess whether such concerns are well founded, Guy Michaels and Georg Graetz analyse the labour market effects of industrial robots, which have been widely adopted in the past 25 years.


30 July 2015     Paper Number CEPCP447

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