The Impact of Robots on the U.S. Labor Market - UBI

The following post is the second in a two-part series on the impact of robots on the workplace and the labor force. In the previous post, St. Louis Fed Economist Maximiliano Dvorkin and Research Associate Asha Bharadwaj analyzed the growing use of industrial robots in advanced industrial economies. They discussed how the use is distributed among different industries. The question that remains unanswered: How might the growth in robots affect local labor markets? "For instance, some workers in the automotive industry, possibly those conducting more manual and routine tasks, may be experiencing job losses as more and more of these jobs are automated by the use of robots," they wrote.