讲座题目：Can Robots Save Jobs from Slowbalization?

摘要：This paper investigates how robot adoption interacts with trade slowdowns to impact local labor markets in China. We highlight the role of industrial robots in mitigating the adverse impact of export slowdown on the local labor market. Employing a Bartik-style instrumental variable approach, we construct a prefecture-level measure of robot adoption and find that an interquartile increase in robot installations leads to a relative increase in the employment of around 0.16 percentage points, holding the Chinese export shock constant at its mean value of 61.42 dollars per worker. Our evidence suggests that firms’ adoption of robots helps offset employment losses from trade slowdown by increasing domestic sales and local consumption. Moreover, this adjustment coincides with shifts in employment structure that disproportionately benefit highly educated workers, as they are less vulnerable to automation.

主讲人：喻婵 副教授（对外经济贸易大学保险学院）

讲座时间：2025年6月4日13:00—14:30

讲座地点：求是楼347会议室

讲座语言：中英文

主持人：王雪凝 讲师

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主讲人简介：

喻婵，现任对外经济贸易大学保险学院副教授，毕业于美国德克萨斯大学奥斯汀分校，获经济学博士学位，研究领域为劳动经济学、国际经济学，重点关注贸易冲击对劳动力市场的影响、影响人力资本发展的因素及移民政策，研究成果发表于Journal of International Economics, Journal of Development Economics，Review of International Economics, Health Economics等国际权威期刊，主持一项国家自然科学青年基金项目。