From Immigrants to Robots: The Changing Locus of Substitutes for Workers

Using numbers of industrial robots shipped to primarily manufacturing industries as a supply shock to an industry labor market, we estimate that an additional robot reduces employment by roughly two to three workers overall and by three to four workers when robots are likely to be good substitutes f...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: George J. Borjas, Richard B. Freeman
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Russell Sage Foundation 2019-11-01
Series:RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences
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Online Access:https://www.rsfjournal.org/content/5/5/22