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

Wenyuan Sun; Zhonghui Zhang; Yang Chen; Fushu Luan

doi:10.1016/j.techsoc.2023.102371

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

Wenyuan Sun
, Zhonghui Zhang^*
, Yang Chen
, Fushu Luan

^*Corresponding author for this work

Department of Economics

Nanjing Audit University

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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.

Original language	English
Article number	102371
Journal	Technology in Society
Volume	75
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.techsoc.2023.102371
Publication status	Published - Nov 2023

Keywords

Displacement effect
Employment
Heterogeneous effects across sectors
Industrial robot adoption
Nonlinear effect
Productivity effect

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