The Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Workers'Rights and Interests and Its Mechanism:An Empirical Research
With the broad rise of artificial intelligence(AI)technology,the employment pattern in China has undergone profound changes,and how AI affects labor rights and interests has become one of the important issues at present.Using data from the 2018 China Labor Dynamics Survey(CLDS),this paper empirically examines the impact of AI on labor rights and interests.The research shows that:(1)the application of AI significantly improves labor rights and interests,and AI promotes the rights and interests through increasing wage and improving social insurance.The conclusion remains valid after robustness and endogeneity tests.(2)The analysis of individual heterogeneity shows that AI has more significant effect on improving the rights and interests of women,workers aged 45 and below,and the high-skilled and low-skilled.The analysis of enterprise heterogeneity shows that the improvement effect of AI on labor rights and interests is more significant in state-owned or collective enterprises and unionized enterprises.Industry heterogeneity reveals that workers in high-tech manufacturing and producer services enterprises can complement AI and obtain greater gains in labor rights and interests.(3)AI influences workers'rights and interests through task allocation and skill matching mechanisms,because that the application of AI provides workers with more opportunities to perform non-routine tasks,leading to an enhancement of workers'rights and interests through human-machine collaboration and that AI results in the combined effect of creating new job opportunities and upgrading workers'skills,which improves the adaptability of technologies and skills,and consequently ameliorating workers'rights and interests.Therefore,in the process of promoting AI,it is essential to make the use of the task-oriented and skill-oriented characteristics of AI by Providing workers with more targeted skill training,enhancing the alignment of workers'skills with AI technologies in order to ensure the workers'continuous benefit from technological advancements.
Artificial IntelligenceLabor Rights and InterestsTask AllocationSkill Match
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