Current Appointments & Affiliations
Associate Professor of Economics at Duke Kunshan University
·
2025 - Present
DKU Faculty
Recent Publications
Robots, occupations, and worker age: A production-unit analysis of employment
Journal Article European Economic Review · November 1, 2024 We analyze the impact of robot adoption on employment composition using novel micro data on robot use of German manufacturing plants linked with social security records and data on job tasks. Our task-based model predicts more favorable employment effects ... Full text CiteRobot Adoption at German Plants
Journal Article Jahrbucher Fur Nationalokonomie Und Statistik · June 1, 2024 Using a newly collected dataset at the plant level from 2014 to 2018, we provide the first microscopic portrait of robotization in Germany and study the correlates of robot adoption. Our descriptive analysis uncovers five stylized facts: (1) Robot use is r ... Full text CiteLabor shortage and early robotization in Japan
Journal Article Economics Letters · December 1, 2023 In this paper, we study how labor shortage contributed to the rise of robots in the early stage of robotization in Japan from 1978 to 1991. Based on the newly digitalized industry-level data on labor shortage, we demonstrate that the shortage of unskilled ... Full text CiteEducation, Training & Certifications
Johns Hopkins University ·
2017
Ph.D.