Giacomo Domini, Marco Grazzi, Daniele Moschella and Tania Treibich

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Threats and opportunities in the digital era: automation spikes and employment dynamics

This paper investigates how investment in automation-intensive goods impacts on worker flows at the firm level and, within firms, across occupational cate- gories. Resorting to an integrated dataset encompassing detailed information on firms, their imports, and employer-employee data for French manufacturing employers over 2002-2015, we identify ‘automation spikes’ using imports of intermediates embedding automation technologies […]

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