Automation and demographic change

Abeliansky, Ana; Prettner, Klaus

Automation and demographic change

dc.contributor.author	Abeliansky, Ana	de
dc.contributor.author	Prettner, Klaus	de
dc.date.accessioned	2024-04-08T08:54:02Z
dc.date.available	2024-04-08T08:54:02Z
dc.date.created	2017-03-13
dc.date.issued	2017
dc.description.abstract	We analyze the effects of declining population growth on the adoption of automation technology. A standard theoretical framework of the accumulation of traditional physical capital and of automation capital predicts that countries with a lower population growth rate are the ones that innovate and/or adopt new automation technologies faster. We test the theoretical prediction by means of panel data for 60 countries over the time span from 1993 to 2013. Regression estimates provide empirical support for the theoretical prediction and suggest that a 1% increase in population growth is associated with approximately a 2% reduction in the growth rate of robot density. Our results are robust to the inclusion of standard control variables, the use of different estimation methods, the consideration of a dynamic framework with the lagged dependent variable as regressor, and changing the measurement of the stock of robots.	en
dc.identifier.swb	485242893
dc.identifier.uri	https://hohpublica.uni-hohenheim.de/handle/123456789/6126
dc.identifier.urn	urn:nbn:de:bsz:100-opus-13363
dc.language.iso	eng
dc.relation.ispartofseries	Hohenheim discussion papers in business, economics and social sciences; 2017,05
dc.rights.license	publ-mit-pod	en
dc.rights.license	publ-mit-pod	de
dc.rights.uri	http://opus.uni-hohenheim.de/doku/lic_mit_pod.php
dc.subject	Automation	en
dc.subject	Industrial robots	en
dc.subject	Demographic change	en
dc.subject	Declining population growth	en
dc.subject	Economic growth	en
dc.subject.ddc	330
dc.subject.gnd	Automation	de
dc.subject.gnd	Bevölkerungsentwicklung	de
dc.title	Automation and demographic change	de
dc.type.dcmi	Text	de
dc.type.dini	WorkingPaper	de
local.access	uneingeschränkter Zugriff	en
local.access	uneingeschränkter Zugriff	de
local.bibliographicCitation.publisherPlace	Universität Hohenheim	de
local.faculty.number	3	de
local.institute.number	520	de
local.opus.number	1336
local.series.issueNumber	2017,05
local.series.title	Hohenheim discussion papers in business, economics and social sciences
local.university	Universität Hohenheim	de
local.university.faculty	Faculty of Business, Economics and Social Sciences	en
local.university.faculty	Fakultät Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften	de
local.university.institute	Institute for Economics	en
local.university.institute	Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre	de

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