Does artificial intelligence promote common prosperity within enterprises? —Evidence from Chinese-listed companies in the service industry
基于2008-2022年中国服务业上市公司数据，研究发现人工智能应用显著降低了企业的劳动收入份额，主要通过挤出低学历和一线工人以及提高劳动生产率但使资本获益的机制，而改善区域劳动力市场整合和工人议价能力可缓解这一负面效应。
As the largest industry that absorbs labor from different levels of employment and provides different levels of labor remuneration, the service industry has faced severe challenges from the wave of artificial intelligence replacement. This study examines whether artificial intelligence promotes shared prosperity among service industry enterprises based on microdata of listed companies in the Chinese service industry from 2008 to 2022. The main research results indicate that the application of artificial intelligence in the service industry significantly reduces enterprises' labor income share. The main mechanisms of action include the employment structure effect of squeezing out low-educated and frontline workers and the wage-productivity effect that improves labor productivity but benefits capital income, leading to an unequal income distribution. Research has found that improving the integration of regional labor markets and workers' bargaining power can help alleviate the negative effects of artificial intelligence applications on the share of labor income in the service industry. This study helps developing countries, such as China, manage the impact of the widespread application of artificial intelligence on the labor market in the service industry and provides important policy insights for achieving common prosperity.