Demographics and Automation

<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title> <jats:p>We argue theoretically and document empirically that aging leads to greater (industrial) automation, because it creates a shortage of middle-aged workers specializing in manual production tasks. We show that demographic chan...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Acemoglu, Daron, Restrepo, Pascual
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Economics
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Oxford University Press (OUP) 2022
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/144423