This thesis tries to investigate whether the accumulation of automation capital is correlated with the decline in the manufacturing sector employment and with the evolution of other labour market indicators in the time frame between 1995 and 2015 in four EU countries: Germany, Italy, Spain and France. Using aggregate data from the International Federation of Robotics and EU-KLEMS, I have found that robots played a role in the decline of manufacturing employment, confirming previ- ous literature based on LLMs analysis and/or microdata. Even though the previous results for the aggregate impact of automation on manufacturing employment are confirmed, the evidence for other labour market indicators is less clear and consis- tent, probably showing that a country-level analysis, with no granularity on LLMs or personal data for each worker is not enough to test empirically the impact of automation on most of the labour market indicators.
This thesis tries to investigate whether the accumulation of automation capital is correlated with the decline in the manufacturing sector employment and with the evolution of other labour market indicators in the time frame between 1995 and 2015 in four EU countries: Germany, Italy, Spain and France. Using aggregate data from the International Federation of Robotics and EU-KLEMS, I have found that robots played a role in the decline of manufacturing employment, confirming previ- ous literature based on LLMs analysis and/or microdata. Even though the previous results for the aggregate impact of automation on manufacturing employment are confirmed, the evidence for other labour market indicators is less clear and consis- tent, probably showing that a country-level analysis, with no granularity on LLMs or personal data for each worker is not enough to test empirically the impact of automation on most of the labour market indicators.
The impact of automation on manufacturing employment: evidence from Western European Union
TADDEI, MASSIMO
2020/2021
Abstract
This thesis tries to investigate whether the accumulation of automation capital is correlated with the decline in the manufacturing sector employment and with the evolution of other labour market indicators in the time frame between 1995 and 2015 in four EU countries: Germany, Italy, Spain and France. Using aggregate data from the International Federation of Robotics and EU-KLEMS, I have found that robots played a role in the decline of manufacturing employment, confirming previ- ous literature based on LLMs analysis and/or microdata. Even though the previous results for the aggregate impact of automation on manufacturing employment are confirmed, the evidence for other labour market indicators is less clear and consis- tent, probably showing that a country-level analysis, with no granularity on LLMs or personal data for each worker is not enough to test empirically the impact of automation on most of the labour market indicators.È consentito all'utente scaricare e condividere i documenti disponibili a testo pieno in UNITESI UNIPV nel rispetto della licenza Creative Commons del tipo CC BY NC ND.
Per maggiori informazioni e per verifiche sull'eventuale disponibilità del file scrivere a: unitesi@unipv.it.
https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14239/1823