1. Robotics and Reshoring : Employment Implications for Developing Countries
- Author
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Fernanda Barcia de Mattos, Sukti Dasgupta, Xiao Jiang, Ansel F. Schiavone, David Kucera, International Labour Office, Fernanda Barcia de Mattos, Sukti Dasgupta, Xiao Jiang, Ansel F. Schiavone, David Kucera, and International Labour Office
- Subjects
- Automation--Economic aspects
- Abstract
Much of the discussion of the impact of automation on employment has focused on developed countries. Yet for developing countries a key concern is the prospect of'reshoring'or'nearshoring'- the opposite of offshoring - in which production shifts from developing back towards developed countries. These shifts would be enabled by automation in the labour-in[1]tensive sectors that have provided developing countries with strategic entry points into global markets and continue to employ large numbers of workers, often disproportionately women. The COVID-19 crisis has lent renewed urgency to the discussions on such restructuring of global supply chains. Relatively absent in these discussions is a sense of how automation plays out on the shop floor.
- Published
- 2020