This paper explores the effects of industrial robots and information and communication technology (ICT) on regional … employment in EU countries. The empirical analysis relies on a harmonised comprehensive regional dataset, which combines business … statistics and national and regional accounts data. This rich dataset enables us to provide detailed insights into the employment …

Numeric Control machines have increased the risk of technology-induced displacement of labour in the garment sector. This … 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 …

. These findings are consistent with the hypothesis that automation technologies, contrary to other types of capital, replace …

study three sets of outcomes: manufacturing employment, labor informality, and average wage. We find that rising Chinese … import competition have negatively affected manufacturing and nontradable employment. Some workers were pushed into …

This paper explores the nature and the key empirical regularities of green employment in US local labor markets between … 2006 and 2014. We construct a new measure of green employment based on the task content of occupations. Descriptive … analysis reveals the following: 1. the share of green employment oscillates between 2 and 3 percent, and its trend is strongly …

occupationspecific effects: offshoring seems to have beneficial employment effects for native craft workers in this set of economies … the exception of manual workers), while robotisation in manufacturing showed strongly negative impacts on the employment …

. The reduction in employment levels was accompanied by an increase in the population that exited the labor force. The … negative employment impact was three times more severe on production workers than on nonproduction workers, indicating that …

effects on employment were mainly associated with job destruction from exiting firms, particularly those that were small and … medium-sized. During periods in which employment fell, the population that actively participated in the labor force fell. The …

NAFTA offered greater export opportunities to Mexican firms that may raise employment, it also opened the door to increased … import competition that may dampen employment gains. This paper finds that in the first decade of its existence, NAFTA had a … net positive impact on domestic employment of 870,000 workers, an increase of 13.7%. Production workers in Mexican gained …