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Automation and future of garment sector jobs : a case study of India
Vashisht, Pankaj; Rani, Nisha - 2019
paper examines the technical and economic feasibility of automation in the Indian garment sector and its likely impact on … to the economic feasibility, automation is going to be restricted to a few garment production processes only. Paper … further argues that despite the automation of the certain production processes, Indian garment sector will register healthy …
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Are we nearly there yet? : new technology adoption and labor demand in Peru
Novella, Rafael; Rosas, David; Alvarado, Alfredo - 2019
Forecasts about the effect of new technologies on labor demand are generally pessimistic. However, little is known about the current level of adoption and the effect on labor demand, particularly in developing countries. This paper exploits a recent employer survey in Peru to offer empirical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012098120
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Artificial intelligence and worker stress : evidence from Germany
Koch, Michael; Lodefalk, Magnus - 2024
affect worker stress. We find a persistent negative relationship, suggesting that AI and robots could reduce the stress level …
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Emerging through technological capability : an overview of India's technological trajectory
Ray, Amit Shovon (contributor) - 2008
economy, there has been a tragic neglect of low end human capital investment for productivity gains in mass manufacturing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003781183
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Notes on the determinants of innovation : a multi-perspective analysis
Crespi, Francesco - 2004
The study of innovation and technological change is an increasing field of economic enquire because innovation can be considered a major engine of growth. This paper is concerned with the determinants of innovation and technological change. Different theoretical approaches present in the...
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Automation, global value chains and functional specialization
Fontagné, Lionel; Reshef, Ariell; Santoni, Gianluca; … - 2023
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Back to the future : changing job profiles in the digital age
Lorenz, Hanno; Stephany, Fabian - 2018
In light of increasingly "smarter" technologies, the future of (human) labour is questioned on a daily basis. A study by Frey and Osborne (2013), one of the most recognised contributions in this domain, estimated that half of the US labour force is highly susceptible to computerisation in the...
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Routinization within-occupation task changes and long-run employment dynamics
Consoli, Davide; Marin, Giovanni; Rentocchini, Francesco; … - 2022
The present study adds to the literature on routinization and employment by capturing within-occupation task changes over the period 1980-2010. The main contributions are the measurement of such changes and the combination of two data sources on occupational task content for the United States:...
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The measurement of labour content : a general approach
Yoshihara, Naoki; Veneziani, Roberto - 2013
This paper analyses the theoretical issues related to the measurement of labour content in the context of general technologies with heterogeneous labour. A novel axiomatic framework is used in order to formulate the key properties of the notion of labour content and analyse its theoretical...
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Horizontal and vertical polarization : task-specific technological change in a multi-sector economy
Lee, Sang Yoon; Shin, Yongseok - 2019
We construct a multi-layer model of skills, occupations, and sectors. Technological progress among middle-skill occupations raises the employment shares and relative wages of lower- and higher-skill occupations (horizontal polarization), and those of managers over workers (vertical...
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