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Numeric Control machines have increased the risk of technology-induced displacement of labour in the garment sector. This …Robotics has been redefining the production process across manufacturing industries, raising serious concern about the … future of jobs and the garment sector is not isolated. The recent innovations such as "Sewbot" along with other Computer …
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Migration has long been considered one of the key mechanisms through which labor markets adjust to economic shocks. In this paper, we analyze the migration response of American workers to two of the most important shocks that hit US manufacturing since the late 1990s - Chinese import competition...
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The present technological revolution, characterized by the pervasive and growing presence of robots, automation, Artificial Intelligence and machine learning, is going to transform societies and economic systems. However, this is not the first technological revolution humankind has been facing,...
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countries and with more robotics-related activities across US commuting zones. We also provide evidence of more rapid … further predicts that the induced adoption of automation technology should be more pronounced in industries that rely more on … aging are ambiguous when technology responds to demographic change, but we should expect productivity to increase and labor …
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After a number of AI-winters, AI is back with a boom. There are concerns that it will disrupt society. The immediate concern is whether labor can win a 'race against the robots' and the longer-term concern is whether an artificial general intelligence (super-intelligence) can be controlled. This...
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We estimate the effects of robot adoption on firm-level and worker-level outcomes in the Netherlands using a large employer-employee panel dataset spanning 2009-2020. Our firm-level results confirm previous findings, with positive effects on value added and hours worked for robot-adopting firms...
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Based on the methodology proposed by Frey and Osborne (2017), we use their estimates for the probability of automation of occupations together with household survey data on the occupational distribution of employment to provide a risk assessment for the threat that automation may pose to the...
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effects within phases of the technology life cycle. We also find that the negative impact of ICT investment on employment is … driven by the phase of the cycle when investment decelerates (and the technology is more mature). The phases of the … technology life cycles are more relevant than differences in regions' structural characteristics, such as productivity and sector …
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In this paper we characterize workers’ vulnerability to automation in the near future in Argentina as a function of the exposure to routinization of the tasks that they perform and the potential automation of their occupation. In order to do that we combine (i) indicators of potential...
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