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14:15 - 15:45
IWH Research Seminar
APR
2019
14:15 - 15:45
Adjusting to Robots: Worker-Level Evidence
We estimate the effect of industrial robots on employment, wages, and the composition of jobs in German labor markets between 1994 and 2014. We find that the adoption of industrial robots had no effect on total employment in local labor markets specializing in industries with high robot usage.
Who
(University of Mannheim)
Where
Personal details
Professor Dr Sebastian Findeisen joined the Department of Economics of the University of Mannheim as an Assistant Professor of Applied Economics in 2014. His areas of specializations ares labor economics, macroeconomics, and public finance.
