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461. How to Stop Worrying and Love the Robot Apocalypse

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Robots and Labor in the Nursing Home Sector

Robot adoption is strongly correlated with having a much larger nursing home. It appears to be a causal impact that adopting robots is associated with more care workers, rather than fewer. But these additional care workers are the non regular type on more flexible contracts. So it sounds like it would promote more human workers, but at a lower wage....

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