Automation and demographic change

Ana Lucia Abeliansky and Klaus Prettner

VfS Annual Conference 2017 (Vienna): Alternative Structures for Money and Banking from Verein für Socialpolitik / German Economic Association

Abstract: A standard theoretical framework of accumulation of traditional physical capital and automation capital predicts that countries with a lower population growth rate are the ones innovating/adopting new automation technologies faster. We test the model prediction using panel data for 60 countries from 1993 to 2013. Empirical estimates suggest that a 1% increase in population growth is associated with an approximate 2% reduction in the growth rate of robot density.

JEL-codes: J11 O14 O33 O40 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-age, nep-cta, nep-dem, nep-gro and nep-pay
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Working Paper: Automation and Demographic Change (2020)
Working Paper: Automation and demographic change (2017)
Working Paper: Automation and demographic change (2017)
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