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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...
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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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We use individual survey data providing detailed information on stress, technology adoption, and work, worker, and employer characteristics, in combination with recent measures of AI and robot exposure, to investigate how new technologies affect worker stress. We find a persistent negative...
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This paper studies the effects of automation of production on labor market outcomes, and whether there is an effect of … automation on functional and personal inequality in Latin America. The paper combines several data sources and empirical … are more likely to be affected by automation, using indexes of task routinization by occupation; and ii) the effects of …
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