Robots, ICT and employment: evidence from advanced and emerging EU countries

by Costanza Bosone, Leonardo Gambacorta, Paolo Giudici, Enisse Kharroubi, Ulf Lewrick<br />We study how robot adoption and investment in information and communication technologies (ICT) jointly shape sectoral employment across 20 European Union (EU) countries over the period 1995-2020. Using a cross-sectional regression design that interacts changes in robot adoption with ICT investment, we find that increases …