Lili Yan Ing is Lead Advisor (Southeast Asia Region) at the Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia (ERIA). Dr Ing was appointed as Lead Advisor to the Minister of Trade of the Republic of Indonesia in 2017–2019.Gene M. Grossman is the Jacob Viner Professor of International Economics in the Department of Economics and the School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University.

• 1 Introduction 2 The Effects of Automation on Labor Demand: A Survey of the Recent Literature 3 Robots, Offshoring, and Welfare 4 On the Employment Consequences of Automation and Offshoring: A Labor Market Sorting View 5 The Impacts of AI, Robots, and Globalization on Labor Markets: Analysis of a Quantitative General Equilibrium Trade Model 6 Telemigration and Development: On the Offshorability of Teleworkable Jobs 7 Immigration and Regional Specialization in AI 8 Robots and Trade: Implications for Developing Countries 9 Automation in Indonesia: Productivity, Quality, and Employment 10 AI, Trade, and Creative Destruction: A First Look

"This is a very interesting and thought-provoking book with contributions investigating a wide range of potential economic effects of robots and AI. I enjoyed reading it, and believe it will be of interest to many, particularly those with interests in trade and labour"Michael Coelli, Associate Professor, Department of Economics, University of Melbourne, Australia