Robots and immigration

IF 2.3 3区经济学 Q2 ECONOMICS

Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization Pub Date : 2024-08-29 DOI:10.1016/j.jebo.2024.106708

Katja Mann, Dario Pozzoli

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Abstract

Changes in local labor supply may affect robot adoption by firms. We test this hypothesis by exploiting an increase in the number of workers and a change in the local workforce composition induced by exogenous immigration into Danish municipalities. Using the Danish employer-employee matched dataset over the period 1995-2019, we show in a shift-share regression that a larger share of non-Western immigrants in a municipality leads to fewer robot adoptions at the firm-level. Several demographic characteristics, including prime age and low skill level, make immigrant workers particularly substitutable for robots. As many advanced economies are facing labor shortages, this paper sheds light on the future of robotization.

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机器人与移民

当地劳动力供应的变化可能会影响企业对机器人的采用。我们利用丹麦城市外来移民导致的工人数量增加和当地劳动力构成的变化来验证这一假设。利用 1995-2019 年期间丹麦雇主与雇员匹配数据集，我们在转移份额回归中表明，一个城市中非西方移民所占份额越大，企业采用机器人的数量就越少。包括黄金年龄和低技能水平在内的一些人口特征使得移民工人特别容易被机器人替代。由于许多发达经济体正面临劳动力短缺，本文揭示了机器人化的未来。

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Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization ECONOMICS-

CiteScore

3.80

自引率

9.10%

发文量

392

期刊介绍： The Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization is devoted to theoretical and empirical research concerning economic decision, organization and behavior and to economic change in all its aspects. Its specific purposes are to foster an improved understanding of how human cognitive, computational and informational characteristics influence the working of economic organizations and market economies and how an economy structural features lead to various types of micro and macro behavior, to changing patterns of development and to institutional evolution. Research with these purposes that explore the interrelations of economics with other disciplines such as biology, psychology, law, anthropology, sociology and mathematics is particularly welcome.