Scott Andes and Mark Muro
BROOKINGS | April 27, 2015
Robots remain an object of quizzical concern—and confusion. In early April the Third Way think tank published research
by Henry Siu and Nir Jaimovich that attributes to robots and automation
the fact that routinized jobs have all but vanished from the economic
recovery.
And yet, in February, Larry Summers professed
himself nonplussed that, for all of the anecdotal evidence that
automation is altering the workplace and presumably increasing
productivity, the “productivity statistics over the last dozen years are
dismal.” In other words, something is failing to compute in the
automation debate.
Especially frustrating has been the fact there hasn’t been much
macroeconomic research on the impact of robots to persuade commentators
to move from anecdote to analysis.
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