This paper examines the effect of technological innovation in the field of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Robotics on unemployment levels in Sweden. The paper collects over 1350 AI and Robotics patents from 2010 to 2020 and carefully matches the patent applicant’s address with the respective municipality and county to construct a panel data set. The panel data is then used to analyze the relationship between unemployment and technological change across counties. The empirical design consists of Pooled Fixed Effects and Fixed Effects Models. The study finds a negative association between unemployment levels and AI and Robotics innovations in the former design and insignificant results in the latter.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA1/oai:DiVA.org:lnu-113529 |
| Date | January 2022 |
| Creators | Rasulov, John |
| Publisher | Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för nationalekonomi och statistik (NS) |
| Source Sets | DiVA Archive at Upsalla University |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Student thesis, info:eu-repo/semantics/bachelorThesis, text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
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