Data and Code for: Advanced Technology Adoption: Selection or Causal Effects?

This paper studies the employment dynamics for firms that adopt advanced technologies versus firms that do not. The findings suggest that firms that adopt advanced technologies are different from those that do not in terms of their size and growth patterns. Prior to the time period during which the adoption of advanced technologies intensified, these firms were larger and grew faster. However, the adoption of advanced technologies did not lead to significant changes in their employment and growth patterns. These findings suggest that adoption is driven more by selection and have implications on how we assess the impacts of advanced technology adoption on firm performance.

本文针对采用先进技术与未采用先进技术的企业的就业动态特征展开研究。研究结果显示，两类企业在企业规模与增长模式上存在显著差异：在先进技术应用普及程度提升的阶段之前，采用先进技术的企业本就拥有更大规模与更快的增长速度。然而，先进技术的采用并未使其就业动态与增长模式发生显著变化。上述研究结果表明，先进技术的采用更多由选择效应驱动，该结论对我们评估先进技术应用对企业绩效的影响具有重要启示意义。