近日，威尼斯欢迎你welcome经济学系罗唯助理教授的合作论文Robots as guardians: Industrial automation and workplace safety in China（合作者：Lixin Tang, Yaxin Yang, and Xianqiang Zou）在发展经济学顶级刊物Journal of Development Economics上在线发表。
论文摘要
Industrial robots can improve workplace safety by performing hazardous tasks on behalf of workers. This paper examines the impact of industrial robots on workplace safety in China. We find that a one-standard-deviation increase in robot exposure reduces annual workplace accidents and fatalities by 0.100 and 0.0133 cases per thousand population, compared to sample averages of 0.122 accidents and 0.0351 fatalities. These findings are robust to an instrumental variable strategy and various robustness checks. Our analysis of injuries in household surveys and Baidu search activities reinforces these results. Using an accounting framework, we show that the safety improvement is not driven by the mechanical effects of robot-induced employment reduction. Instead, within-occupation improvement in workplace safety plays a more crucial role.
论文链接：https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jdeveco.2024.103381
作者简介
罗唯，威尼斯欢迎你welcome经济学系助理教授。博士毕业于香港科技大学, 本科毕业于中山大学。研究兴趣集中于发展经济学、劳动经济学和公共经济学。研究成果发表（包括接收发表）于Journal of Development Economics, Journal of Human Resources, Journal of Population Economics和Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization等经济学权威刊物，并担任Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Journal of Population Economics, China Economic Review和《经济学》（季刊）等国内外期刊匿名审稿人。工作论文获得中国劳动学会劳动科学教育分会优秀论文一等奖。
校对| 麦嘉杰
责编| 麦嘉杰
初审| 孙 兰
复审| 唐庆峰
终审发布| 何凌云
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