Following a couple of decades of offshoring, the fear today is of reshoring. Using administrative data on Mexican exports by municipality, sector and destination from 2004 to 2014, this paper investigates how local labor markets in Mexico that are more exposed to automation in the U.S. through trade fared in exports and employment outcomes. The results show that an increase of one robot per thousand workers in the U.S. — about twice the increase observed...
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2019/01/01
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2019/03/14
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Does Automation in Rich Countries Hurt Developing Ones? : Evidence from the U.S. and Mexico
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local labor market