Robots for economic development

IF 2.2 2区经济学 Q2 ECONOMICS

Labour Economics Pub Date : 2025-05-15 DOI:10.1016/j.labeco.2025.102731

Massimiliano Calì , Giorgio Presidente

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Abstract

Recent evidence suggests that in manufacturing, automation technologies entail a trade-off between productivity gains and employment losses for the economies that adopt them. This paper casts doubts on such trade-off in the context of a developing country. It shows significant employment gains from automation in Indonesian manufacturing during the years 2008–2015, a period of rapid increase in robot imports. Analysis based on manufacturing plant data provides evidence that the absence of this trade-off is due to diminishing productivity returns to robot adoption. As a result, the benefits from automation could be particularly large for countries at early stages of industrialization.

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机器人促进经济发展

最近的证据表明，在制造业中，自动化技术需要在生产率提高和就业损失之间进行权衡。本文在发展中国家的背景下对这种权衡提出了质疑。报告显示，在2008年至2015年期间，印尼制造业自动化带来了显著的就业增长，这是机器人进口快速增长的时期。基于制造工厂数据的分析提供了证据，表明这种权衡的缺失是由于采用机器人的生产率回报降低。因此，对于处于工业化早期阶段的国家来说，自动化带来的好处可能特别大。

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Labour Economics ECONOMICS-

CiteScore

3.60

自引率

8.30%

发文量

142

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