日本的劳动力短缺和早期机器人化

IF 2.1 4区经济学 Q2 ECONOMICS

Economics Letters Pub Date : 2023-10-14 DOI:10.1016/j.econlet.2023.111404

Liuchun Deng , Minako Fujio , Xin Lin , Rui Ota

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摘要

在本文中，我们研究了劳动力短缺是如何导致1978年至1991年日本机器人化早期机器人兴起的。基于最新数字化的行业层面的劳动力短缺数据，我们证明了非熟练工厂工人的短缺与后续机器人的采用呈正相关。我们还发现，工厂熟练工人短缺对机器人采用的影响是负面的，这表明熟练劳动力在自动化过程中可能发挥互补作用。

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Labor shortage and early robotization in Japan

In this paper, we study how labor shortage contributed to the rise of robots in the early stage of robotization in Japan from 1978 to 1991. Based on the newly digitalized industry-level data on labor shortage, we demonstrate that the shortage of unskilled factory workers is strongly positively associated with subsequent robot adoption. We also find the effect of the shortage of skilled factory workers on robot adoption to be negative, suggesting a potentially complementary role of skilled labor in the process of automation.

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Economics Letters ECONOMICS-

CiteScore

3.20

自引率

5.00%

发文量

348

审稿时长

30 days

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