We propose a theoretical framework to analyze the offshoring and reshoring decisions of firms in the age of automation … it leads also to increasing wages for high-skilled workers, automation-induced reshoring is associated with an increasing …. Our theory suggests that increasing productivity in automation leads to a relocation of previously offshored production …

This study conducts a meta-analysis to assess the effects of robotization on employment and wages, compiling data from … 33 studies with 644 estimates on employment and a subset of 19 studies with 195 estimates on wages. We identify a … publication bias towards negative outcomes, especially concerning wages. After correcting for this bias, the actual impact appears …

Will low-skilled workers be replaced by automation? To answer this question, we set up a search and matching model that … features two skill types of workers and includes automation capital as an additional production factor. Automation capital is a … show that the accumulation of automation capital decreases the labor market tightness in the low-skilled labor market and …

role of automation in supporting the work of humans but the potential of Artificial Intelligence (AI) to influence the need …

The paper extends Dei (2010) to check the role of time zone difference on offshoring of service tasks when the quality … time. The problem of the service producers is to choose between domestic production and offshoring. Domestic production … employs high-quality skilled labours but the time management is inefficient. On the other hand, offshoring to a non …

Recent evidence suggests that automation technologies entail a trade-off between productivity gains and employment …. It shows significant productivity and employment gains from automation in Indonesian manufacturing during the years 2008 … robot adoption. As a result, the benefits from automation could be particularly large for countries at early stages of …