Analysis of the impact of the development of artificial intelligence on the employment of China's labor force

Abstract

The development of artificial intelligence affects the employment of labor force in China. The article uses the panel data of 30 provinces in China from 2004 to 2020 to analyze the development trend of AI in China from the spatio-temporal dimension, and finds that the development of AI promotes the two dimensions of the quantity of labor force employment and the quality of the labor force through the two-step system generalized moments estimation (Two-step-SYS-GMM) regression. Meanwhile, regional innovation efficiency is measured with the super-efficient SBM model (US-SBM model) considering non-desired outputs, and it is found that regional innovation efficiency has a positive moderating effect on the dynamic relationship between the two. Then, it proposes coping strategies to improve institutional arrangements, strengthen vocational training and activate innovation factors.