Competing with Robots: Firm-Level Evidence from France

<jats:p> We study the firm-level implications of robot adoption in France. Of 55,390 firms in our sample, 598 adopted robots between 2010 and 2015, but these firms accounted for 20 percent of manufacturing employment. Adopters experienced significant declines in labor shares, the share of prod...

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Main Authors: Acemoglu, Daron, Lelarge, Claire, Restrepo, Pascual
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Economic Association 2021
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/135228