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7 January 2021

Robotics

How Robots are Beginning to Affect Workers and Their Wages

This report analyzes the impact of robots in the years following the Great Recession, from 2009 to 2017 - a period of significant, steady job growth and economic recovery, as well as one in which the use of robots in the U.S. workplace more than doubled. The report’s findings, summarized below, offer new insights that can help inform ongoing debates about the future of work and the impact of automation.

by Richard Freeman, William Rodgers
The Century Foundation
Employment, Industrial Robots, New Technology, Robots, Wages, Workers

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William Rodgers

Richard Freeman

The Century Foundation

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