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 …

. These findings are consistent with the hypothesis that automation technologies, contrary to other types of capital, replace …

assignment of workers to tasks to quantitatively assess the aggregate impact of automation and other task-biased technological … inequality and lower output as occupation mobility has provided an "escape" for the losers from automation …

paper examines the technical and economic feasibility of automation in the Indian garment sector and its likely impact on … to the economic feasibility, automation is going to be restricted to a few garment production processes only. Paper … further argues that despite the automation of the certain production processes, Indian garment sector will register healthy …