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 …

This paper presents new evidence on tradeinduced automation in manufacturing firms using unique data combining a … between automation and firm performance and find that firms with high increases in scale and scope of automation have faster … productivity growth than other firms. Moreover, automation improves the efficiency of all stages of the production process by …