Higher education expansion and robot imports: evidence from China
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- A22 - General Economics and Teaching - - Economic Education and Teaching of Economics - - - Undergraduate
- F16 - International Economics - - Trade - - - Trade and Labor Market Interactions
- I23 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - Higher Education; Research Institutions
- J21 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Labor Force and Employment, Size, and Structure
- O33 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Innovation; Research and Development; Technological Change; Intellectual Property Rights - - - Technological Change: Choices and Consequences; Diffusion Processes
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