Demography, Capital Accumulation and Growth

Robert Stehrer and Maryna Tverdostup

No 222, wiiw Working Papers from The Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies, wiiw

Abstract: Europe will be challenged by demographic changes over the next few decades, even under favourable assumptions about fertility and migration, but the economic effects are not yet fully understood. This paper studies the effects of population ageing on economic growth, capital deepening and robotisation in 27 European Union (EU) labour markets. First, we econometrically assess the effects of ageing and potential labour market shortages on growth. Second, we test the hypothesis of whether ageing leads to faster adoption of new technologies. We distinguish between various capital asset types, including non-ICT and ICT capital, tangible and intangible capital and the adoption of robots. The analysis is based on Eurostat, the European Labour Force Survey (EU-LFS) and International Federation of Robotics (IFR) data. Results indicate that ageing and demographic changes might contribute to secular stagnation, which decelerates the adoption of new technologies.

Keywords: aging; growth; capital accumulation; new technologies; secular stagnation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J11 O33 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 56 pages including 35 Tables and 9 Figures
Date: 2022-10
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-age, nep-eec, nep-gro, nep-ict and nep-lab
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