Yunxin Liu , Yuqiang Cao , Meiting Lu , Yaowen Shan , Jiangang Xu
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This study examines the impact of industrial robot applications on labor investment efficiency. While previous studies have mainly focused on how industrial robots affect productivity, economic structures, and labor markets, their influence on labor investment efficiency has remained relatively underexplored. Using data from Chinese manufacturing firms, our results demonstrate that the adoption of industrial robots significantly improves labor investment efficiency. This improvement is mainly achieved by optimizing the human capital structure and enhancing capital deepening. We also find that this effect is more pronounced in non-state-owned enterprises, in environments with reduced information asymmetry, and in firms with low R&D investment and labor intensity. Overall, our results highlight the positive effect of industrial robot applications on the efficiency of corporate labor investments from a microeconomic perspective, providing important insights for labor investment decisions and resource allocation optimization.
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Economic Modelling fills a major gap in the economics literature, providing a single source of both theoretical and applied papers on economic modelling. The journal prime objective is to provide an international review of the state-of-the-art in economic modelling. Economic Modelling publishes the complete versions of many large-scale models of industrially advanced economies which have been developed for policy analysis. Examples are the Bank of England Model and the US Federal Reserve Board Model which had hitherto been unpublished. As individual models are revised and updated, the journal publishes subsequent papers dealing with these revisions, so keeping its readers as up to date as possible.
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