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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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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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affect worker stress. We find a persistent negative relationship, suggesting that AI and robots could reduce the stress level …
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economy, there has been a tragic neglect of low end human capital investment for productivity gains in mass manufacturing …
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Job training programs can be an eective policy for improving productivity and labor market outcomes in low and middle …
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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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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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industrial robots, affect the demand for workers of different education, age, and gender. We do so by exploiting differences in … that software and robots reduced the demand for low and medium-skill workers, the young, and women|especially in …. These findings are consistent with the hypothesis that automation technologies, contrary to other types of capital, replace …
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assignment of workers to tasks to quantitatively assess the aggregate impact of automation and other task-biased technological … inequality and lower output as occupation mobility has provided an "escape" for the losers from automation …
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