How Do People Respond When They Know That Robots Will Take Their Jobs
- Authors
- Gunadi, Christian; Ryu, Hanbyul
- Issue Date
- Oct-2023
- Publisher
- Blackwell Publishing Inc.
- Citation
- Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, v.85, no.5, pp 939 - 958
- Pages
- 20
- Indexed
- SCIE
SSCI
SCOPUS
- Journal Title
- Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics
- Volume
- 85
- Number
- 5
- Start Page
- 939
- End Page
- 958
- URI
- https://scholarworks.bwise.kr/erica/handle/2021.sw.erica/112908
- DOI
- 10.1111/obes.12544
- ISSN
- 0305-9049
1468-0084
- Abstract
- In recent years, the USA observed a substantial increase in the adoption of robotic technology. The use of industrial robots in the US economy increased rapidly from about 1 robot per 1,000 workers in 2005 to 1.7 robots per 1,000 workers in 2017, a 70% increase. At the same time, there is a concern that the rapid adoption of robots will transform our society in a way that we have never seen before. In this article, we investigate whether individuals are responding to the increasing use of robots in their locality by altering their schooling decision. The results of the analysis suggest that a 10% increase in robot exposure is associated with an approximately 2.5% rise in college enrolment rate. In the long run, we find evidence that more intense exposure to robots during school ages is associated with an increase in the probability of an individual obtaining a college degree. © 2023 Oxford University and John Wiley & Sons Ltd.
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