This paper investigates the effect of robot adoption on employment adjustment in China. By using detailed Chinese firm-level data and addressing endogeneity, we find that using industrial robots increases employment within firms, especially when focusing on the employment of high-educated and...

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This paper investigates the effect of robot adoption on employment adjustment in China. By using detailed Chinese firm-level data and addressing endogeneity, we find that using industrial robots increases employment within firms, especially when focusing on the employment of high-educated and...

This paper investigates the effect of robot adoption on employment adjustment at the firm level in China. Using an instrument that exploits the source of the firm-level variation in robot adoption, we find that using industrial robots increases employment within firms, especially when focusing...