Karim Bekhtiar
Biographic Data
| ID | 6550657 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Karim Bekhtiar |
| GIVEN NAMES | Karim |
| FAMILY NAME | Bekhtiar |
| SIGNATURE | BEKHTIAR K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Institute for Advanced Studies (IHS) Vienna Austria |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6667-1075 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 2 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 2 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Robotization, internal migration and rural decline
This paper is the first to analyze the effects of robotization on internal migration flows and rural decline, which is an important driving force of societal and political polarization in many developed economies. Using detailed migration flow data from Austria, I show that robotization has caused significant declines in manufacturing employment, to which populations reacted by increasingly migrating out of affected regions. Since rural regions r…
Robots at work? Pitfalls of industry‐level data
In their seminal paper, Graetz and Michaels (2018) find that robots increase productivity, lower output prices, and adversely affect the share of low‐skilled labor. We demonstrate that these effects are partly driven by the sample composition and argue that focusing on manufacturing industries yields more credible results regarding the overall economic effects of robotization. The results show that focusing on robotizing industries leads to a siz…
Robotization, internal migration and rural decline
This paper is the first to analyze the effects of robotization on internal migration flows and rural decline, which is an important driving force of societal and political polarization in many developed economies. Using detailed migration flow data from Austria, I show that robotization has caused significant declines in manufacturing employment, to which populations reacted by increasingly migrating out of affected regions. Since rural regions r…
Robots at work? Pitfalls of industry‐level data
In their seminal paper, Graetz and Michaels (2018) find that robots increase productivity, lower output prices, and adversely affect the share of low‐skilled labor. We demonstrate that these effects are partly driven by the sample composition and argue that focusing on manufacturing industries yields more credible results regarding the overall economic effects of robotization. The results show that focusing on robotizing industries leads to a siz…
Robotization, internal migration and rural decline
This paper is the first to analyze the effects of robotization on internal migration flows and rural decline, which is an important driving force of societal and political polarization in many developed economies. Using detailed migration flow data from Austria, I show that robotization has caused significant declines in manufacturing employment, to which populations reacted by increasingly migrating out of affected regions. Since rural regions r…
Demographic economics (2 works) · Economic growth (2 works) · Economics (2 works) · Business (1 work) · Developing country (1 work) · Development economics (1 work) · Digital Economy and Work Transformation (1 work) · Economic Growth and Productivity (1 work) · Firm Innovation and Growth (1 work) · Internal migration (1 work)