Dear colleagues, The Department of Economics cordially invites you to the WU Economics Research Seminar on Wednesday, January 11th, with Katja Mann (Copenhagen Business School) on "Automation and Low-skill Labor" Abstract: An increase in the supply of low-skill workers potentially affects robot adoption at the firm-level by alleviating labor shortages. We assess this claim by exploiting an exogenous change in the labor supply induced by a large influx of immigrants into Danish municipalities. Using the Danish employer-employee matched dataset over the period 1995-2019, we show in a shift-share regression that a larger share of migrants in a municipality leads to fewer imports of robots at the firm-level. We rationalize this finding in a simple model of robot adoption in which robots and low-skill workers are substitutes. Date: Wednesday, January 11th Time: 4.30 to 6 pm (CET) Location: building TC, 3rd floor, room TC.3.07 With best regards, Harald Oberhofer --- Univ.-Prof. Dr. Harald Oberhofer Department of Economics WU Vienna University of Economics and Business Phone: +43/1/31336-4984 Email: harald.oberhofer@wu.ac.at<mailto:harald.oberhofer@wu.ac.at> Webpage: https://www.wu.ac.at/ie/mitarbeiter/harald-oberhofer/ Austrian Institute of Economic Research (WIFO) Phone: +43/1/7982601-468 Email: harald.oberhofer@wifo.ac.at<mailto:harald.oberhofer@wifo.ac.at> Webpage: http://www.wifo.ac.at/harald_oberhofer