The impact of robots on employment and trade is a highly discussed topic in the academic and public debates …. Particularly, there are concerns that automation may threat jobs in emerging countries given the erosion of the labour cost … advantage. We provide evidence on the effects of robots on worldwide employment, including emerging economies. To instrument the …

A wide urban-rural disparity is observed in employment growth in the United States. For example, employment growth … examine the sources of U.S. employment growth using the county-level industry data. From an analytical labor-market model, we … derive equilibrium employment growth as a function of growth in neighborhood characteristics and initial conditions such as …

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

exogenous to local labor market conditions. These barriers to mobility have a significant negative effect on employment, wages …

This paper examines the spatial pattern of U.S. county employment growth in high-tech industries. The spatial growth … hierarchy. Growth is examined for overall high-tech employment and for employment in various high-tech sectors. Econometric …

This paper studies the impact of environmental innovation on employment growth using firm-level data for 16 European … countries and the period 2006-2008. It extends the model by Harrison et al (2008) in order to distinguish between employment … differences, it also generates new insights into the heterogeneity of the environmental innovation-employment growth link along …

-specific spatial patterns of employment dynamics, and whether these patterns are conditional upon the general economic climate in a … particular region. To this end, we analyze and compare patterns of employment growth in the knowledge economy and its subsectors …-intensive employment growth. Our results show that with respect to knowledge-intensive employment, both the Randstad and the Rhine …