Myrielle Gonschor

RWI – Leibniz Institute for Economic Research

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Myrielle Gonschor is an economist whose research sits at the intersection of labor economics, automation, and technological change. Her work focuses on understanding how the rise of industrial robots reshapes labor market dynamics across Europe, with particular attention to worker flows, job stability, and cross-national variation in outcomes. Her most prominent contribution examines the effects of robot exposure on labor market transitions across 16 European countries over the period 2000–2017. Through rigorous empirical analysis, Gonschor and her collaborators find that increased robot adoption is associated with small but meaningful reductions in job separations, while effects on job finding rates are more nuanced and context-dependent. A key insight from her research is that labor costs serve as a critical moderating factor: countries with lower labor costs experience distinctly different automation-driven outcomes than their higher-cost counterparts, highlighting that the consequences of robotization are far from uniform across Europe. Her research has accumulated over 35 citations across multiple iterations of this work, reflecting growing scholarly interest in granular, cross-country analyses of automation's labor market effects. For students and researchers studying the future of work, technological unemployment, or comparative labor policy, Gonschor's empirically grounded approach offers valuable perspective on how institutional and economic context shapes the human consequences of automation.