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 …

employment population, in a particular area. The analysis may reveal regional employment disparities, sometimes severe, between … Romania have certain particularities (features) in terms of employment, which makes some characteristics (demographic …, educational etc.) to impart significant influence on employment.This paper aims to highlight the features of the rural area, in …

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