Don't blame it on the machines: Robots and employment in Europe

Feb 25, 2020

72% of Europeans believe that “robots and artificial intelligence steal jobs”. Image: Unsplash/Franck V.

Enrique Fernández-Macías

Researcher, Joint Research Centre of the European Commission

José-Ignacio Antón

Associate Professor, University of Salamanca

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Figure 1 Robots in operation in different EU countries Image: VoxEU

Figure 2 Distribution of robots by sector as a share of total robots Image: VoxEU

Figure 3 Employment shares of manufacturing in Europe Image: VoxEU

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