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Robots and Labor in the Service Sector: Evidence from Nursing Homes / Karen Eggleston, Yong Suk Lee, Toshiaki Iizuka.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Eggleston, Karen.
- Series:
- Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w28322.
- NBER working paper series no. w28322
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2021.
- Summary:
- In one of the first studies of service sector robotics using establishment-level data, we study the impact of robots on staffing in Japanese nursing homes, using geographic variation in robot subsidies as an instrumental variable. We find that robot adoption increases employment by augmenting the number of care workers and nurses on flexible employment contracts, and decreases difficulty in staff retention. Robot adoption also reduces the monthly wages of regular nurses, consistent with reduced burden of care. Our findings suggest that the impact of robots may not be detrimental to labor and may remedy challenges posed by rapidly aging populations.
- Notes:
- Print version record
- January 2021.
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