export products’ quality upgrading, but the enterprises whose robot applications exceed the U-shaped inflection point only …Using the micro-level data on China’s export enterprises from 2005 to 2013, this paper discusses the impact of … industrial robots on the quality upgrading of export products from two aspects: the change of enterprises’ costs and the …

Labor cost has rapidly increased in the past decades. However, little is known about its effect on the firm-level robot … adoption, and evidence about the consequences of robot adoption on firm production is limited. Based on a novel dataset of … robot adoption at the firm-level, we use geographic discontinuity design to identify that labor costs significantly increase …