PRODUCTIVE ROBOTS AND INDUSTRIAL EMPLOYMENT: THE ROLE OF NATIONAL INNOVATION SYSTEMS

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Kapetaniou, Chrystalla; Pissarides, Christopher A.
• 署名单位: University of Southampton; University of London; London School Economics & Political Science; University of Cyprus
• 刊物名称: INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC REVIEW
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0020-6598
• DOI: 10.1111/iere.12738
• 发表日期: 2025
• 页码: 25-52
• 关键词: structural-change

摘要

In a model with robots, automatable and nonautomatable production, we study robot-labor substitutions and show how they are influenced by a country's innovation system. Substitution depends on demand and production elasticities, the country's innovation capabilities, and openness. Making use of World Economic Forum data, we estimate the relationship for 13 countries and find that countries with poor innovation capabilities substitute robots for workers much more than countries with richer innovation capabilities, which might complement them. Innovation capabilities play a bigger role in the high-tech electronics sector than in other manufacturing and play a limited role in nonmanufacturing.