One of the central policy pledges made by Donald Trump was to reshore jobs that had previously moved overseas. Skepticism about his claims existed however, not least due to concerns that whilst work may return to the United States, the work would be done by machines rather than people.
A recent study from Georg-August-Universitat Gottingen set out to explore whether reshored jobs were taken by humans or machines via a new measure of reshoring at the macroeconomic level.
The analysis found that high levels of automation in a country were positively associated with attempts to reshore production that had previously been […]
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