Carles Boix (Princeton), Valentina Gonzalez-Rostani (USC), Erica Owen (Pittsburgh, presenter), “The Political Economy of Automation and Fragmented Production: Evidence from Mexico”
How does automation in the Global North shape politics and violence in the Global South? We develop a political economy theory in which robot adoption in advanced economies reduces demand for export-oriented labor in developing countries, depressing wages and employment and creating social and political consequences. We test this argument in Mexico, a close trade […]