Robots, Tasks and Trade (English)

This paper examines the effects of robotization on trade patterns, wages and welfare. It develops a Ricardian model with two-stage production and trade in intermediate and final goods in which robots can take over some tasks previously performed by humans in a subset of industries. An increase in robot adoption in the North reduces the cost of production and thereby impacts trade in final and intermediate goods with the South. The empirical analysis...
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Artuc,Erhan; Bastos,Paulo S. R.; Rijkers,Bob.

Robots, Tasks and Trade (English). Paper is funded by the Knowledge for Change Program (KCP)|Paper is funded by the Strategic Research Program (SRP)|Policy Research working paper|WDR 2020 Background Paper|no. WPS 8674 Washington, D.C. : World Bank Group. http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/269231544735360818

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