Robots and skill-biased development in employment structure: Evidence from China

Chengjian Tang, Keqi Huang and Qiren Liu

Economics Letters, 2021, vol. 205, issue C

Abstract: We use inverse probability of treatment weighting (IPTW) and propensity score matching (PSM) difference-in-differences (DID) to identify the causal relation between industrial robot adoption and employment structure in China. We find that robot adoption will significantly encourage firms to hire more highly skilled and highly educated workers, introducing skill-biased development into firms’ employment structure.

Keywords: Industrial robots; Skill-biased employment; IPTW-DID; PSM-DID (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J21 J24 O33 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2021.109960

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