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Automation and future of garment sector jobs : a case study of India
Vashisht, Pankaj; Rani, Nisha - 2019
Numeric Control machines have increased the risk of technology-induced displacement of labour in the garment sector. This …Robotics has been redefining the production process across manufacturing industries, raising serious concern about the … future of jobs and the garment sector is not isolated. The recent innovations such as "Sewbot" along with other Computer …
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Local shocks and internal migration: the disparate effects of robots and Chinese imports in the US
Faber, Marius; Sarto, Andrés; Tabellini, Marco - 2021
Migration has long been considered one of the key mechanisms through which labor markets adjust to economic shocks. In this paper, we analyze the migration response of American workers to two of the most important shocks that hit US manufacturing since the late 1990s - Chinese import competition...
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Testing the employment impact of automation, robots and AI : a survey and some methodological issues
Barbieri, Laura; Mussida, Chiara; Piva, Mariacristina; … - 2019
The present technological revolution, characterized by the pervasive and growing presence of robots, automation, Artificial Intelligence and machine learning, is going to transform societies and economic systems. However, this is not the first technological revolution humankind has been facing,...
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Robots worldwide : the impact of automation on employment and trade
Carbonero, Francesco; Ernst, Ekkehard; Weber, Enzo - 2020
The impact of robots on employment and trade is a highly discussed topic in the academic and public debates. Particularly, there are concerns that automation may threat jobs in emerging countries given the erosion of the labour cost advantage. We provide evidence on the effects of robots on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012431525
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Demographics and automation
Acemoglu, Daron; Restrepo, Pascual - 2018
countries and with more robotics-related activities across US commuting zones. We also provide evidence of more rapid … further predicts that the induced adoption of automation technology should be more pronounced in industries that rely more on … aging are ambiguous when technology responds to demographic change, but we should expect productivity to increase and labor …
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The race against the robots and the fallacy of the giant cheesecake : immediate and imagined impacts of artificial intelligence
Naudé, Wim - 2019
After a number of AI-winters, AI is back with a boom. There are concerns that it will disrupt society. The immediate concern is whether labor can win a 'race against the robots' and the longer-term concern is whether an artificial general intelligence (super-intelligence) can be controlled. This...
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Robots worldwide: the impact of automation on employment and trade
Carbonero, Francesco; Ernst, Ekkehard; Weber, Enzo - 2020
The impact of robots on employment and trade is a highly discussed topic in the academic And public debates. Particularly, there are concerns that automation may threat jobs in emerging countries given the erosion of the labour cost advantage. We provide evidence on the effects of robots on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012175271
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Robots and workers : evidence from the Netherlands
Acemoglu, Daron; Koster, Hans; Ozgen, Ceren - 2023
We estimate the effects of robot adoption on firm-level and worker-level outcomes in the Netherlands using a large employer-employee panel dataset spanning 2009-2020. Our firm-level results confirm previous findings, with positive effects on value added and hours worked for robot-adopting firms...
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Stop Worrying and Love the Robot : An Activity-Based Approach to Assess the Impact of Robotization on Employment Dynamics
Caselli, Mauro; Fracasso, Andrea; Scicchitano, Sergio; … - 2021
This work investigates the impact that changes in the exposure to robots had on Italian local employment dynamics over the period 2011-2018. A novel empirical strategy focusing on a match between occupations’ activities and robots’ applications at a high level of disaggregation makes it...
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Stop worrying and love the robot : an activity-based approach to assess the impact of robotization on employment dynamics
Caselli, Mauro; Fracasso, Andrea; Scicchitano, Sergio; … - 2021
This work investigates the impact that the change in the exposure to robots had on the Italian local employment dynamics over the period 2011-2018. A novel empirical strategy focusing on a match between occupations' activities and robots' applications at a high level of disaggregation makes it...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012494334