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Automation and inequality within firms: Evidence from the manufacturing sector in South Africa

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Abstract

This paper investigates the effects of automation on employment dynamics and within-firm earnings inequality in South Africa’s formal manufacturing sector.

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Themes

employmentmanufacturinginequality

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