We estimate the effects of robot adoption on firm-level and worker-level outcomes in the Netherlands using a large … value added and hours worked for robot-adopting firms and negative outcomes on competitors in the same industry. Our worker … earnings and employment rates, while other workers indirectly gain from robot adoption. We also find that the negative effects …

economic growth in upcoming years. We first analyze the economic effects of changing working-age shares in a standard empirical … growth model using country panel data from 1950-2015. We then juxtapose the estimates with predicted shifts in population age … structure to project economic growth in 2020-2050. Our results indicate that population aging will slow economic growth …

five advanced technologies: AI, robotics, dedicated equipment, specialized software, and cloud computing. The adoption of … these technologies remains low (especially for AI and robotics), varies substantially across industries, and concentrates on …

countries and with more robotics-related activities across US commuting zones. We also provide evidence of more rapid …

Several recent theories emphasize the negative effects of an aging population on economic growth, either because of the …

For decades, economists and social thinkers have debated the influence of population change on economic growth. Three … alternative positions define this debate: that population growth restricts, promotes, or is independent of economic growth … size and growth. In recent years, however, the debate has under-emphasized a critical issue, the age structure of the …

developed world. Absent an immediate and dramatic change in immigration, dependency ratios will roughly double over the next …

This paper presents and critically discusses a vast array of evidence on the determinants of mortality reductions in … in income and nutrition. We then characterize the age and cause of death profile of changes in mortality and ask what can …

theories and their significance for the understanding of the transition from stagnation to growth. The analysis suggests that … and the transition to modern growth …