Effect of Industrial Robots on Employment in China: An Industry Level Analysis

Table 6

Adding lagged core explanatory variables to deal with endogeneity.

	Group A	Group B	Group C
	(6) lnL	(6) lnL	(6) lnL
L.lnRobot	0.096	−0.202	0.033
	(12.10)	(−7.83)	(4.45)
lnFDI	−0.028	0.015	−0.015
	(−1.24)	(0.35)	(−0.85)
lnRD	0.060	0.180	0.035
	(1.91)	(1.95)	(2.29)
_Cons	2.552	1.340	2.535
	(12.56)	(2.16)	(25.97)
N	36	18	44
R^2	0.887	0.774	0.293
F	93.396	20.750	8.265

Notes. This table reports the results of the robustness test in Section 4.2. The lag variable L.lnRobot of explanatory variable lnRobot is used as a substitute variable to conduct regression test. The dependent variable is employment at the industrial level. All other variables are defined in Section 3.2. t statistics are reported in parentheses. , , and indicate significance at the 1%, 5%, and 10% levels, respectively.