Robots and reshoring: a comparative study of automation, trade, and employment in Europe

IF 2.8 4区管理学 Q2 BUSINESS

Industrial and Corporate Change Pub Date : 2024-04-02 DOI:10.1093/icc/dtae012

Chinchih Chen, Carl Benedikt Frey

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Abstract

This paper constitutes a comparative assessment of the impact of robots on local labor markets across eight European countries. Doing so, we find that robots generally reduce employment in the manufacturing sector, while their impacts on total employment are more ambiguous. Though local markets experienced significant employment losses in Italy, Norway, and the United Kingdom, we find no statistically significant impact of robots on employment in Germany, Sweden, Denmark, Finland, and Spain. Job losses were seemingly offset by employment gains in other sectors of the economy. We explore two mechanisms that might explain these patterns: differences in investment in complementary job-creating technologies and robot-induced reshoring. Our analysis provides some support for both mechanisms in elucidating the differential impacts of robots on jobs across space.

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机器人与再生产：欧洲自动化、贸易与就业比较研究

本文对八个欧洲国家的机器人对当地劳动力市场的影响进行了比较评估。在评估过程中，我们发现机器人普遍减少了制造业的就业人数，而对总就业人数的影响则较为模糊。虽然在意大利、挪威和英国，当地市场经历了显著的就业损失，但我们发现在德国、瑞典、丹麦、芬兰和西班牙，机器人对就业没有统计上的显著影响。就业机会的损失似乎被其他经济部门就业机会的增加所抵消。我们探讨了可能解释这些模式的两种机制：在创造就业的互补技术方面的投资差异和机器人引发的再生产。我们的分析为这两种机制提供了一些支持，以阐明机器人在不同空间对就业的不同影响。

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5.10

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4.00%

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期刊介绍： The journal covers the following: the internal structures of firms; the history of technologies; the evolution of industries; the nature of competition; the decision rules and strategies; the relationship between firms" characteristics and the institutional environment; the sociology of management and of the workforce; the performance of industries over time; the labour process and the organization of production; the relationship between, and boundaries of, organizations and markets; the nature of the learning process underlying technological and organizational change.