Robots, factor intensities, and wage inequality

IF 1.4 4区经济学 Q3 BUSINESS, FINANCE

Asia-Pacific Journal of Accounting & Economics Pub Date : 2022-05-23 DOI:10.1080/16081625.2022.2078379

Jiancai Pi, Yanwei Fan

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Abstract

ABSTRACT This paper investigates how robots affect wage inequality. We consider four cases, i.e. robots replacing skilled labor, robots replacing unskilled labor, robots replacing both skilled and unskilled labor, and robots serving as complements to human labor. Different from the existing literature on artificial intelligence and automation, we find that in all the four cases an increase in the importance of robots can increase or decrease wage inequality under different conditions. When robots are incorporated into the framework of wage inequality, factor intensities should be taken seriously.

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机器人、要素密集度和工资不平等

本文研究机器人如何影响工资不平等。我们考虑了四种情况，即机器人取代熟练劳动，机器人取代非熟练劳动，机器人取代熟练劳动和非熟练劳动，机器人作为人类劳动的补充。与现有关于人工智能和自动化的文献不同，我们发现在这四种情况下，机器人重要性的增加可以在不同条件下增加或减少工资不平等。当机器人被纳入工资不平等的框架时，要素强度应该得到认真对待。

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Asia-Pacific Journal of Accounting & Economics Multiple-

CiteScore

2.40

自引率

9.10%

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