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Bessen, James; Koch, Michael; Manuylov, Ilya; Smolka, Marcel; Acemoglu, D; Dauth, Wolfgang; Others Don’t blame it on the machines: robots and employment in europe 2020 Article Automation
Citation Bessen, James; Koch, Michael; Manuylov, Ilya; Smolka, Marcel; Acemoglu, D; Dauth, Wolfgang; Others 2020 Article Automation

"Don’t blame it on the machines: robots and employment in europe"

by Bessen, James; Koch, Michael; Manuylov, Ilya; Smolka, Marcel; Acemoglu, D; Dauth, Wolfgang; Others (2020)

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… Industrial robots can be characterised as more or less stationary reprogrammable robotic 'arms' that … ineffective for its own purposes and counterproductive in other ways, since robot use is … Acemoglu, D and P Restrepo (2019), “ Robots and jobs : Evidence from US labor markets …

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Bessen, James, et al. Don’t Blame It on the Machines: Robots and Employment in Europe. voxeu.org, 2020.

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