With increased automation and many jobs going overseas, this may turn out to be a jobless recovery, but American companies continue to prosper.
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This can mean downsizing, increased automation, offshoring, and the like.
As labor costs in the industrial centers such as Shenzhen and Shanghai increase, the solutions are increased automation and also to move factories to the interior of the country, i.e.
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For example, Folbre notes that men constitute more than 71% of the workforce in manufacturing (which was hit hard in the recession, and also hit with outsourcing to lower cost labor countries, increased automation, and increased foreign trade) and they make up less than 25% of the workers in health and education services (where jobs have risen slowly, but steadily).
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And increased factory automation would reduce the primary attraction of outsourcing to China.
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The increased level of automation will involve changes in the qualification and training of the employees but can involve a reduction in the number of jobs for entry-level employees in a number of industries.
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While auto industry wages in Brazil have risen 125% in ten years, productivity has increased only 22% due to a lack of automation, poor training and high energy and steel costs.
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