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来源类型 | Working Paper |
规范类型 | 工作论文 |
The impact of industrial robots on EU employment and wages: A local labour market approach | |
Francesco Chiacchio; Georgios Petropoulos; David Pichler | |
发表日期 | 2018-04-18 |
出版年 | 2018 |
语种 | 英语 |
概述 | In theory, robots can directly displace workers from performing specific tasks (displacement effect). But they can also expand labour demand through the efficiencies they bring to industrial production (productivity effect). This working paper adopts the local labour market equilibrium approach developed by Acemoglu and Restrepo to assess which effects dominate and the impact of robots on wage growth and employment rate in Europe. |
摘要 | The authors of this working paper study the impact of industrial robots on employment and wages in six European Union countries, which make up 85.5 percent of the EU industrial robots market. In theory, robots can directly displace workers from performing specific tasks (displacement effect). But they can also expand labour demand through the efficiencies they bring to industrial production (productivity effect). The research adopts the local labour market equilibrium approach developed by Acemoglu and Restrepo (2017) to assess which of the two labour market effects dominates. The authors find that one additional robot per thousand workers reduces the employment rate by 0.16-0.20 percentage points. Thus a significant displacement effect dominates. The displacement effect is particularly evident for workers of middle education and for young cohorts, while men are more affected than women. Estimates, however, do not point to robust and significant results on the impact of robots on wage growth, even after accounting for possible offsetting effects across different populations and sectoral groups. |
主题 | Innovation & Competition Policy |
关键词 | artificial intelligence employment policy and labour markets industry Must-Reads Summer 2018 productivity robots unemployment |
URL | https://bruegel.org/2018/04/the-impact-of-industrial-robots-on-eu-employment-and-wages-a-local-labour-market-approach/ |
来源智库 | Bruegel (Belgium) |
资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/429710 |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Francesco Chiacchio,Georgios Petropoulos,David Pichler. The impact of industrial robots on EU employment and wages: A local labour market approach. 2018. |
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