Artificial Intelligence,Labor Misallocation and Population Floating
Integrating the development of artificial intelligence(AI),labor misallocation,and population floating into a unified analyt-ical framework,this paper elucidates their intrinsic relationships and mechanisms from a theoretical and empirical perspective.Ac-cording to the mathematical model derivation,AI effectively improves population mobility trends and significantly promotes popula-tion floating by correcting labor misallocation.Based on theoretical analysis,this paper collects panel data at the individual,enter-prise,and prefecture city levels from 2010 to 2018 for empirical testing.The results show the following:(1)AI induces the two-way flow of population among regions;(2)Mechanism testing indicates that with correction of labor misallocation as a key variable to en-hance population mobility trends,AI can facilitate population floating more markedly by means of raising resource allocation efficien-cy;(3)The impact of AI on population mobility exhibits typical non-equilibrium characteristics.Combining the current realities in China,the paper proposes policy suggestions including grasping the development laws of AI,giving full play to its corrective role on labor misallocation,and focusing on the typical heterogeneity characteristics of its development.