Robot Adoption and Employment Adjustment : Firm-Level Evidence from China

This paper investigates the effect of robot adoption on employment adjustment at the firm level in China. Using an instrument that exploits the source of the firm-level variation in robot adoption, we find that using industrial robots increases employment within firms, especially when focusing on the employment of high-educated and high-skilled individuals. We further analyze the mechanisms underlying the effect of robots and find strong support for the productivity effect that robot adopters gain productivity improvement and thereby increase their demand for labor. In addition, we find limited evidence for the intra-industry labor reallocation to robot-adopting firms from their non-adopting peers

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Year of publication:	[2023]
Authors:	Wang, Ting ; Zhang, Yi ; Liu, Chun
Publisher:	[S.l.] : SSRN
Subject:	China \| Roboter \| Robot \| Industrie \| Manufacturing industries \| Erwerbstätigkeit \| Employment \| Beschäftigungseffekt \| Employment effect \| Arbeitsnachfrage \| Labor demand \| Wirtschaftliche Anpassung \| Economic adjustment

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