机器人采用和出口复杂性：来自中国的企业层面证据

IF 2.9 3区经济学 Q1 ECONOMICS

Journal of Asian Economics Pub Date : 2025-02-09 DOI:10.1016/j.asieco.2025.101891

Hongsheng Zhang , Ziyi Chen , Yueling Wei

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本研究利用2000 - 2013年中国海关贸易统计和工业企业年度调查的企业层面匹配数据，调查了机器人采用对中国企业出口复杂性的影响。本文以一国出口生产率的豪斯曼指数为基础，建立了企业层面的出口复杂程度指数，并采用了几种实证策略来确定因果关系。结果表明，1 %的工业机器人的采用增加可以导致0.020 %的企业的出口成熟度上升。对非国有企业、劳动密集型企业和大型企业的促增长效应更为明显。在潜在的机制方面，我们发现机器人的采用可以导致生产率的增长和创新的增强，并改变劳动力的就业，最终有助于提高企业的出口成熟度。

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Robot adoption and export sophistication: Firm-level evidence from China

This study investigates the impact of robot adoption on the export sophistication of Chinese firms, utilizing the firm-level matching data from the Chinese Customs Trade Statistics and the Annual Survey of Industrial Firms between 2000 and 2013. We develop a firm-level export sophistication index based on Hausmann's index of a country's exporting productivity and employ several empirical strategies to identify the causal effect. The results indicate that a 1 % increase in the adoption of industrial robots can lead to a 0.020 % rise in a firm's export sophistication. The pro-growth effect is more pronounced for non-state-owned, labor-intensive, and large firms. In terms of the underlying mechanisms, we find robot adoption can lead to productivity growth and innovation enhancement and change the employment of labor, ultimately contributing to an improvement in firms' export sophistication.

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Journal of Asian Economics ECONOMICS-

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4.70

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9.40%

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期刊介绍： The Journal of Asian Economics provides a forum for publication of increasingly growing research in Asian economic studies and a unique forum for continental Asian economic studies with focus on (i) special studies in adaptive innovation paradigms in Asian economic regimes, (ii) studies relative to unique dimensions of Asian economic development paradigm, as they are investigated by researchers, (iii) comparative studies of development paradigms in other developing continents, Latin America and Africa, (iv) the emerging new pattern of comparative advantages between Asian countries and the United States and North America.