TY - BOOK ID - 137826235 TI - Does Automation in Rich Countries Hurt Developing Ones? : Evidence from the U.S. and Mexico AU - Artuc, Erhan. AU - Christiaensen, Luc. AU - Winkler, Hernan Jorge. PY - 2019 PB - Washington, D.C. : The World Bank, DB - UniCat KW - Automation KW - Business Cycles and Stabilization Policies KW - Common Carriers Industry KW - Construction Industry KW - Employment KW - Export Competitiveness KW - Food and Beverage Industry KW - General Manufacturing KW - Industry KW - International Economics and Trade KW - International Trade and Trade Rules KW - Labor Market KW - Labor Markets KW - Macroeconomics and Economic Growth KW - Offshoring KW - Plastics and Rubber Industry KW - Pulp and Paper Industry KW - Rural Labor Markets KW - Textiles Apparel and Leather Industry KW - Trade KW - Wages Compensation and Benefits UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:137826235 AB - 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 between 2004-2014-lowers growth in exports per worker from Mexico to the U.S. by 6.7 percent. Higher exposure to U.S. automation did not affect wage employment, nor manufacturing wage employment overall. Yet, the latter is the result of two counteracting forces. Exposure to U.S. automation reduced manufacturing wage employment in areas where occupations were initially more susceptible to being automated; but exposure increased manufacturing wage employment in other areas. Finally, the analysis also finds negative impacts of exposure to local automation on local labor market outcomes. ER -