Astrid Krenz

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Total Citations

195

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About

Astrid Krenz is an economist whose research sits at the intersection of labor economics, automation, and international trade. Her work focuses on understanding how technological change — particularly the rise of industrial robots — reshapes labor markets and global production patterns, with a special emphasis on the consequences for low-skilled workers. Krenz is best known for her influential study on robots, reshoring, and the labor market prospects of low-skilled workers, a paper that has accumulated over 170 citations since its publication and has established her as a notable voice in the ongoing debate about automation and inequality. Her research explores the nuanced relationship between robotic adoption in advanced economies and firms' decisions to reshore production, examining how these dynamics ultimately affect the employment and wages of the most economically vulnerable workers. By tracing the ripple effects of automation across global supply chains and domestic labor markets, Krenz contributes important empirical grounding to policy discussions around technological displacement and workforce adaptation. Her work is particularly valuable for students and researchers seeking to understand the distributional consequences of the ongoing automation revolution.