Demography, growth and robots in advanced and emerging economies

Matteo Lanzafame

No 2021.30, Working Papers from Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei

Abstract: This paper provides estimates of the impact of demographic change on labor productivity growth, relying on annual data over 1961-2018 for a panel f 90 advanced and emerging economies. We find that increases in both the young and old population shares have significantly negative effects on labor productivity growth, working via various channels – including physical and human capital accumulation. Splitting the analysis for advanced and emerging economies shows that population ageing has a greater effect on emerging economies than on advanced economies. Extending the benchmark model to include a proxy for the robotization of production, we find evidence indicating that automation reduces the negative effects unfavorable demographic change – in particular, population aging-on labor productivity.

Keywords: Demographic Change; Labor Productivity; Robots (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C33 J11 O40 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021-12
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-age, nep-dem, nep-eff, nep-gro, nep-lab and nep-tid
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