We survey the recent empirical literature on the effects of offshoring on wages, employment and displacement. We start … with the measurement of offshoring, focusing on the use of imported inputs that could have been produced by the importing … firm. We overview key theories related to offshoring and its labor market effects and survey three waves of the literature …

-level implications of robot adoption. Out of 55,390 firms in our sample, 598 have adopted robots between 2010 and 2015, but these firms … account for 20% of manufacturing employment and value added. Consistent with theory, robot adopters experience significant … further document that the impact of robots on overall labor share is greater than their firm-level effects because robot …

In this paper, in order to study the impact of offshoring on sectoral and economywide rates of unemployment, we … offshoring. This result can be understood to arise from the productivity enhancing (cost reducing) effect of offshoring. If the …, the economywide rate of unemployment decreases. We also find multiple equilibrium outcomes in the extent of offshoring and …

We use a model of automation to show that with the current U.S. tax system, a fall in automation costs could lead to a … massive rise in income inequality. This inequality can be reduced by raising marginal income tax rates and taxing robots. But … current tax system to include a lump-sum rebate. In our model, with the rebate in place, it is optimal to tax robots only when …

unemployment. We show that heterogeneity, reflecting differences in match quality and worker assets, reduces the extent of … fluctuations in separations and unemployment. We find that the model faces a trade-off--it cannot produce both realistic dispersion … in wage growth across workers and realistic cyclical fluctuations in unemployment …

We summarize a framework for the study of the implications of automation and AI on the demand for labor, wages, and … counteracted by a productivity effect, resulting from the cost savings generated by automation, which increase the demand for labor … effects are incomplete. Even when they are strong, automation in- creases output per worker more than wages and reduce the …

workers in those sectors of local labor markets that have high levels of automation -measured as robots per thousand workers …Previous studies for developed countries show negative short-run impacts of automation on employment and earnings. In … this paper, we instead examine whether automation by a key trading partner can hurt workers in a developing country. We …

on robots and trade, the magnitude of these taxes may decrease as the process of automation and globalization deepens and …Technological change, from the advent of robots to expanded trade opportunities, tends to create winners and losers … valued? We provide a general theory of optimal technology regulation in a second best world, with rich heterogeneity across …