We argue theoretically and document empirically that aging leads to greater (industrial) automation, and in particular … older to middle-aged workers — is associated with greater adoption of robots and other automation technologies across … development of automation technologies in countries undergoing greater demographic change. Our directed technological change model …

We develop an assignment model of automation. Each of a continuum of tasks of variable complexity is assigned to either … capital or one of a continuum of labor skills. We characterize conditions for interior automation, whereby tasks of … automation pushes workers into tasks at the lower and upper ends of the task distribution. It also monotonically increases the …

We develop an assignment model of automation. Each of a continuum of tasks of variable complexity is assigned to either … capital or one of a continuum of labor skills. We characterize conditions for interior automation, whereby tasks of … automation pushes workers into tasks at the lower and upper ends of the task distribution. It also monotonically increases the …

allocation of tasks to capital and labor - the task content of production. Automation, which enables capital to replace labor in … productivity. The effects of automation are counterbalanced by the creation of new tasks in which labor has a comparative advantage … - due to automation and new tasks - can be inferred from industry-level data. Our empirical decomposition suggests that the …