Heterogeneous effects of robots on employment in agriculture, industry, and services sectors

Wenyuan Sun, Zhonghui Zhang, Yang Chen and Fushu Luan

Technology in Society, 2023, vol. 75, issue C

Abstract: This paper investigates how the impact of robots on employment differs across various sectors. Based on country-level data, our analysis reveals a U-shaped relationship between overall employment and robot usage. However, we observe different trends in the agriculture, industry, and services sectors. We explore how the relationship between robot usage and employment evolves with increasing robot adoption and how these patterns vary across sectors. Additionally, our findings suggest that productivity serves as both a moderator and mediator in the relationship between employment and robot usage. We evaluate how the effect of robots on employment differs in countries with varying levels of productivity.

Keywords: Industrial robot adoption; Employment; Nonlinear effect; Displacement effect; Productivity effect; Heterogeneous effects across sectors (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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DOI: 10.1016/j.techsoc.2023.102371

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