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Research Article

Technological change and unemployment: evidence from China

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Pages 851-854 | Published online: 07 Mar 2021
 

ABSTRACT

This study investigates the impact of technological change on unemployment in China’s labour market based on a recent panel data of 283 prefectural-level cities from 2010 to 2017. The results obtained by the system Generalized Method of Moments (GMM-SYS) estimation show that massive adoption of robots is a significant driving force raising unemployment rate while there is a reverse change in the longer period; the insignificant estimates of utility patent and its lagged terms indicate the weak and non-persistent relationship between unemployment and patent-related innovation.

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The authors declare no conflict of interest.

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Notes

1 Specific descriptions and summary statistics for variables used in this paper are displayed in the appendix, Table A1.

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Funding

This research was funded by National Science Foundation of China [No. 71873048], the Humanities and Social Science Foundation from the China Ministry of Education [No. 18YJA790086], HQU Scientific Research Foundation for Talent Introduction [No. 19SKBS104], and supported by the China Postdoctoral Science Foundation [2020M671929].

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