Industrial Robots,Skill Structural Upgrading,and Enterprises'Labor Income Share
Increasing the proportion of labor remuneration in primary distribution is the basis for promoting common prosperity.So how will the application of industrial robots reshape the pattern of factor allocation while triggering the transformation of enterprise productivity and production mode?This paper discusses the influence mechanism of industrial robots on the labor income share of enterprises by constructing a theoretical model and empirically examines the impact of industrial robot applications on the share of labor income within Chinese manufacturing enterprises using micro-data from A-share listed companies.Our study finds that the adoption of industrial robots has increased the labor income share.Endogeneity tests and robustness tests provide further support for this conclusion.Mechanism analysis indicates that the use of industrial robots primarily promotes the increase of labor income share within the enterprise by upgrading the skill structure.Heterogeneity analysis reveals that the application of industrial robots has a stronger effect on increasing labor income share within state-owned enterprises,enterprises with a lower proportion of technical personnel,capital-inten-sive industries,industries with small elasticity of capital-labor substitution,central and western regions and regions with policy support.
industrial robotslabor income shareskill structure upgradingskill bias
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